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Originally Posted by Armistead
It's a fun battle, I'm assuming you're playing stock, which does have the group coming through the San Bern, although RSRD has it to historical perfection and is surrounded by about 12 DD's. With stock the DD's often do dumb things.
Depending if I can I go for BB's, if I'm not detected I go for the Yamato, if I get detected before, whatever capital ships I can shoot at.
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Yes, i'm playing stock
. And im stuck with it until the old pc (mine) gets actualized. i cant download things on this one, it s new and I have "no permission to full it with downloads, when the old one gets actualized, you can do whatever you want with it, but not with this one", superior orders.
I once spotted one Yamato at the Bismarck Sea on Feb 1943, it was in a little TF with some DDs and a Fuso, also a few big merchats maybe. I fired 12 torps at him with my gato, all of them reached the ship, but nothing happened. Then i realized that 1 sub hardly would sink the Yamato, i think you must hit it with 15 or more torps to cause some damage to that mountain of steel. I know that it tooked 17 aerial torp and 19 bombs to sink the Mushashi.
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by Hinrich Schwab :
As far as Yamato grazing your boat, you said you were at 30 meters. At 30 meters, the only boats that should be hitting yours are sinking ones you got too close to. If it were 30 feet, I would see Yamato colliding as its draft is around 36 feet or so. At worst, it would have destroyed your periscope shears and both scopes
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Yes, it was strange. The indicator says the "keel depth", i dont know what is the full vertcal lenght (from the scopes to the keel) of the balao, the Yamato had a 11 mts draught. The keel was at 30 mts, but the scopes could have been at 10 mts when we crashed.
Do you know the Histoy Channel's program "Dogfigths" ? Mostly it shows aerial battles, but sometimes its about naval battles, one is about the Leyte Gulf Battle, it tells how the DDs and planes could defeat the Central Force BBs. With some vet's testimony. here are some links:
Part 1/5
Part 2/5
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Part 5/5