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Originally Posted by Beery
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For instance, I just read last night that the largest Japanese Ship sunk solely by deck gun was only 3000 tons. That deck guns were mainly used for sampans and such.
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Hehe, I feel a disturbance in the Force - either a "deck gun reload time" discussion is about to develop, or I shouldn't have eaten that corn dog I had for lunch. |
Ha Ha!
Another interesting tidbit from the book concerns torpedo usage. This endorsement was attached to one of Morton's Patrol reports by his commander after Morton went on a patrol and decided to use only one torpedo per ship. It ended up being a wasted patrol (unsual for him)
"The decision of the commanding officer to fire single torpedoes, while understandable, is not concurred in. A minimum of two, preferably three, torpdedoes, using a spread, should be fired at any target worthy of torpedo expenditure, taking into consideration the poor performance of the Mark XIV torpedo........Torpedo spreads must be used...."
So....taking these two exerpts into consideration...if I wanted to run my patrol that way and try to simulate a plausable WWII sub patrol outcome i would:
1. Not use my deck gun, unless on small targets, or to finish off cripples
2. Fire two to three torpedo spreads at any enemy ship
That combined with a mod that makes it harder to find contacts would probably result in a realistic patrol result...No more 100,000 Merchant ships sunk on a single patrol!
So...the book is definately a treasure to have!
