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tater · 07-26-10, 08:57 AM

Gotcha. It bugged me, too, and I did MANY experiments to see if a 20mm gun (the smallest I had at the time) could do ANY damage to the sub.

It turns out (and ducimus can correct me here) that they were incapable of hurting the deck crew AT ALL until they destroyed/penetrated the compartment the crew was in. Since the small guns cannot do this, they do no damage except to slowly destroy the hull. Then the whole boat sinks after a while. Stinks.

So you end up with small arms, ad even AAA guns being useless against subs (which creates zero fear or trade offs for surface attacks), or they harm the subs, and keep the skippers honest (since surface atatcks were somewhat rare in the PTO).

Not sure is someone more clever than I am ever figured it out so that small arms were deadly to people, but not subs.

07-26-10, 08:57 AM	#9
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	Gotcha. It bugged me, too, and I did MANY experiments to see if a 20mm gun (the smallest I had at the time) could do ANY damage to the sub. It turns out (and ducimus can correct me here) that they were incapable of hurting the deck crew AT ALL until they destroyed/penetrated the compartment the crew was in. Since the small guns cannot do this, they do no damage except to slowly destroy the hull. Then the whole boat sinks after a while. Stinks. So you end up with small arms, ad even AAA guns being useless against subs (which creates zero fear or trade offs for surface attacks), or they harm the subs, and keep the skippers honest (since surface atatcks were somewhat rare in the PTO). Not sure is someone more clever than I am ever figured it out so that small arms were deadly to people, but not subs.