Originally Posted by tater

I completely agree about nasty damage being immersive. In flight sims some of my more memorable flights have been nursing a damaged ship home after getting badly shot up.

That said, this is not about that. Severe damage would still of course be possible from DCs that do not explode in virtual contact with your sub.

The point of the poll was that in SH4 a single DC NEVER kills you, regardless of where it goes off. Navies all around the world were under the impression that within a few meters would likely kill any sub. Were they all wrong?

I'm just looking at boundary values, really.

I'd like to see "skin hits" on your sub be very likely deadly. That doesn't mean you need to instantly sink, it just means that the damage WILL sink you at some point most likely.

So a single DC shacks you, and you start flooding, and find yourself settled on the bottom, desperately trying to repair it before it's too late—and there is a good chance you will not succeed. Meanwhile, you better hope Tojo needs a hearing aid, cause even a near miss will likely finish you for sure.

Another boat manages to dodge and weave, and the closest DCs are between 6 and 10m. The crew is rattled, and the sub likely needs an overhaul back at Pearl, but she'll make it home.

I'm interested because in addition to being realistic (I think), it certainly encourages realistic behavior on the part of the skipper. If you fight the boat with the thought that even a single good DC hit will likely kill you, you are more cautious,and you take a more active role in avoiding the enemy during DC attacks than you would when you know it might take 2-4 very close DCs to actually sink you. Particularly if the escorts are modded to have realistic numbers of ashcans.