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Originally Posted by Platapus
In real life ships took hours/days to sink. Hence an interesting problem for the Captain. Should I wait or should I use another torpedo?
One school of thought is that anything worth shooting once is worth shooting again. Others like to be stingy with their torpedoes.
What I do is zoom in and try to find some feature on the hull I can line up with the current water line. If I see it go under in about 10 minutes of real time, I am pretty confident the ship will sink on its own.
Just remember that you need to stick around until it does sink if you want credit.
If the ship is motionless, you can always use this opportunity to try different approaches before you launch another torpedo. I use these situations for practicing my stern Cromwell approach.
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Sometimes ships just disintegrated, depending on it's cargo.