[Tessa]

Originally Posted by Gargamel

In GWX, it all depends on WHERE you hit it. I've sunk the Hood with one well placed shot, and I've also put 5 (over 3 days, 2 encounters) into her and she kept trucking along.

One shot that sets off her Magazine or boilers, and blammo, down she goes. But if you keep hitting the armored spots where they can control the flooding, then she might not sink.

The battleships, if found alone and in decent position, are actually easy targets. They are not targets to be conserving ammo on. You should really be firing a full salvo, each eel aimed manually at weak spots, at these ships. They move too fast, and you'll probably not get a second shot. If they aren't alone, and have ASUW escorts, then it's all that more important to make that first shot count, as you won't be able to do an end around like you can on a normal convoy.

But they are easy targets because they cannot fight back unless they spot your scope (You're not attacking these things on the surface are you? They fire shells about 2/3 the size of the torpedo's we fire, and a whole bunch at a time.). They don't carry DC's, and they don't have ASDIC. So unless you pop up and yell "HERE I AM!" you can considered them just heavily armed, fast moving, high value merchants.

If the BB/CV is moving at a steady/constant course speed as long as you are in firing range (depending on day/night will dictate if you can use the longer range steam torpedoes; though personally prefer electrics anyways since you need to be closer; thus less room for error) I've never seen a need to fire more than 2 shots per target. Depending on the ship one at the forward magazine(s) and the other at the aft magazines or boilers. 1 shot to the boilers while maybe not as spectactular as the magazine exploding it will kill all propulsion and the BB will end up going down aft section first with its inability to keep itself moving and ultimately afloat. A magnetic hit is ideal, though even in deep water a solid low bow shot can still can enough damage to sink a BB with 1 eel.