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Originally Posted by Theurg
Greetings, captains.
Played in SH3 long ago, and looks like now is coming another underwater cycle for me.  |
Welcome back! I have just returned myself. If you don't get a response from more than me, you might want to repost this as a new thread!
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Originally Posted by Theurg
So, one thing in SH3 was remaining a mystery for me for all these years: how exactly works the registration of the fact of sinking the ship? Is getting the "She's going down!" message from one of officers the only way to ensure that ship will be counted in score?
i'd like to ask experiensed captains: if my boat will dive into the deep to avoid escorts' attacks immediately after firing torpedoes, will the victims of my attack (if any) be scored if i'll not see they're sinking?
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As long as you are within a certain range of your kill -- and this is several nautical miles, but I do not remember the exact range -- you will almost always be awarded credit when the ship goes down. You do not need to see it go down.
So, feel free to do like most of us do... as soon as you fire your torpedos, begin your defensive measures to avoid escorts. Absolutely get the scope down and head for depth.
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can happen is that you don't cripple your ship enough to go down quickly, and it sails off while you are still fighting escorts. It may indeed sink 20 nm away and you will not get credit for it... but neither would you in real life.
What rarely happens -- it has happened to me maybe three times in several hundred patrols -- is that you will damage a small ship in rough seas and it will go down with no credit. Apparently it is the weather getting the kill. Nothing to do about that.
Welcome back and good hunting!