This was from another thread on this forum
Tough tankers are the norm, I am afraid in real life.
Torpedoes sink cargo ships because the cargo ship's holds are normally filled with air/cargo which is lighter than the water the ship displaces and the torpedo lets in water which is the same weight as the surrounding water. Glub glub.
A tanker is not a ship filled with air, but a ship designed to float while full of liquid.
Unless the torpedo can make the specific liquid go boom, all you are doing is exchanging one liquid for another. Oil is lighter than water but not by much. To sink a tanker you have to break the ship's back or make it capsize. Tankers are also capable of moving liquid from one compartment to another. I don't know if this is modeled in the game or not, but in real life punching a hole in a tanker will be more harmful to the environment than the tanker itself.
Tankers filled with av gas are easy to sink not because of the torpedo but because of the resulting fire/explosion breaking the ship. A tanker filled with heavy oil won't burn nor explode (or will be much harder to get a good fire going.)
A Tanker traveling in ballast (no or little liquid filling the compartments) may be very very hard to sink.
Under keel shots and or shots in the engine compartments are my guess at where to hit tankers. But punching holes in the liquid storage compartments may not be all the troubling to the tanker itself.
I hope this helped
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