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Originally Posted by DicheBach
Here is a new question.
I stumbled through a wikipedia browsing session and wound up reading this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_net
Seems like these things were not "uncommon" during the peak of WWII, eh?
So why none in SH4? Does SH5 have them? |
That first sentence says: "Torpedo nets were a passive ship defensive device against torpedoes. They were in common use from the 1890s
until the Second World War. They were superseded by the anti-torpedo bulge and torpedo belts."
A picture is worth a thousand words:
Imagine getting to set that up every time you docked... Yikes! They were used on some 700 traveling ships, according to the article, and did protect the majority of them during most torpedo attacks, but not all. You can simulate the effect of a torpedo net in SH3 & SH4 on docked ships with the use of the anti-sub net, just making it a small one, floating on the surface, and around an individual ship. Modeling a net on a moving ship would require at least the booms added to a ship, but getting torpedoes to explode before actual impact with the ship would be a trick...
