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Originally Posted by donna52522
I was never aware of that, and I have sailed into port with a lot of damage before. That wouldn't be realistic though...I would imagine if someone like O'Kane came into port with a damaged boat he wouldn't be punished at all. He'd probably be congratulated for getting himself and his crew back.
But I can understand the premise, game wise.
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It depended on the situation some things are outside the control of the skipper others are if a skipper where to cause reckless damage to a submarine be by grounding it or a reckless exposure to attack they could be and where relived of command.
O'Kane lost his ship because he was hit by a circular running torpedo he did everything he could to try and save the Tang.The Darter got run aground near Palawan she successfully sank an IJN cruiser and was pursuing a damage cruiser when she ran aground.Neither of these skippers got punished.Other skippers that made poor choices did rightly get relived of command some could also have been courts marshaled but where not.
The kicking of command actually makes a lot of sense and is a fairly good way to reflect as best as possible the way skippers where reviewed two poorly rated patrols and bye bye one serious error in judgment and bye bye.But there is no way to actually review your actions besides counting renown points.So the inclusion of the high damage suffered punishment actually is a good way to reflect historical accuracy with in the limits of what SH4 allows.
Besides you have to suffer 50% or more damage in TMO to get "punished" you either really had a very bad day or you made a bad decision in the game to suffer that much hull damage or you where overly aggressive to the point of recklessness.
The last time I suffered serious damage in TMO I stupidly assumed that they had lost track of me after an attack despite the fact that they where pinging (I assumed they where off as the last string was way out in left field) I sat with engines off while the IJN thought "this guy is a bozo" and preceded to drop a string right on me.Had I have been doing the correct thing and actively evaded even though i felt confident those DC would have missed or at least had done much less damage.