Hmm... I'm not quite sure what to think about the NYGM. I just sank a C2-Cargo. Took four torpedoes to sink. First torpedo hit in the forward 1/3 of the ship, didn't seem to do anything besides scratching off some paint. Followed the ship for more than 1 hour, then fired a second torpedo, hit a couple of meter forward of the bridge. Ship continues on course, slowed down a bit (from 8-9 kts to 5 kts) followed it for 1 1/2 hours, ship sinks a bit but still continues rather unconcerned... A third torpedo hits in the aft third of the ship, in the next 90 minutes the ship sinks a bit deeper, but still seems to sail happily along at 5kts. After three torpedo hits... :hmm:
More than four hours after the first hit I send the fourth eel into the unfortunate cargo ship, and FINALLY, half an hour later, she begins to sink.
I really don't know what to think about this. Four torpedoes for a medium freighter (5000ts)? I haven't played a lot with NYGM but at the moment I'm less than happy with it. This just doesn't seem very realistic. I do support the idea of making sinking the ships a bit more realistic, but if that means a ship can now simplyshrug off a couple of torpedo hits it probably isn't my cup of tea. Maybe I'm just unlucky, but IMO a C2-class cargo ship should sink rather quickly after one-two torpedo hits. From my rather limited experience with NYGM it seems that a single torpedo hit has pretty much zero chance to sink a target.
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