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Old 03-29-11, 06:57 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by CaptainMattJ. View Post
It may take quite a bit to sink a ship with 3.46 inch shells, but if you know the compartments and have critical thinking skills, you can make deck gun shells count without the risk of wasting a perfectly good EXTREMLY expensive 280kg warhead.
Indeed. IIRC most of laPerière kills were by shelling. Don´t know the stats but I guess U-Boats needed a lot of shells and plenty of time to sink a ship on average. I´ll post if I found something.
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