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Originally Posted by perisher
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Originally Posted by techie714
WOW, that sucks so everyone is missing destroyers about 70% of the time? I have yet to hit one & I have shot at about 4 with at least 7-10 torpedos, all with EXCELLENT firing solutions on easy. Everyone just glides about 3 feet below the keel (bottom) of the boat.. =(
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In real life destroyers were seldom attacked. Even if you have torpedoes that keep their depth, destroyers are difficult targets and their retribution for a missed shot can be terrible indeed. Also, at the end of the day, they were a relatively low value target, better to kill the escorted than the escort. |
Not entirely true. USS HARDER in command of Samuel Dealey sunk 5 destroyers in one patrol. They deducted 2 of this result after war, counting them as heawily damaged.
Japans destroyers were quite big to become quite resonable target but of cource not as vaulable as tankers.
It would be great idea to make destroyers a bit harder to kill by one torpedo - accordinh to historic records.