SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - View Single Post - in response to alot of "used too many torps to sink a boat" threads

-Pv- · 07-05-07, 09:42 PM

"You cannot kill a battleship like yamato with 4 torpedoes. These ships can take a lot and i mean a lot more, after all they are designed to take torpedoes and keep going."

I've seen a lot of people make this statement but not true. We don't know what it would have taken to sink the Yamato because it was sunk by planes. The same hull converted into an aircraft carrier was sunk with one torp. Six were fired and hit, one penetrated hitting a support beam and forcing the beam through a boiler.

It's rare when I don't sink small-medium ships with one or at most two torps. Skill and technique play an important part as it should in any well made game.

-Pv-

07-05-07, 09:42 PM	#9
-Pv- The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,434 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	"You cannot kill a battleship like yamato with 4 torpedoes. These ships can take a lot and i mean a lot more, after all they are designed to take torpedoes and keep going." I've seen a lot of people make this statement but not true. We don't know what it would have taken to sink the Yamato because it was sunk by planes. The same hull converted into an aircraft carrier was sunk with one torp. Six were fired and hit, one penetrated hitting a support beam and forcing the beam through a boiler. It's rare when I don't sink small-medium ships with one or at most two torps. Skill and technique play an important part as it should in any well made game. -Pv- Last edited by -Pv-; 07-05-07 at 10:01 PM.