[Hondo314]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

If you're playing the stock game, it doesn't matter where you make the holes. Put more hits on it than it has hit points and it will explode and sink, period.

I'm not convinced this is the case. When I have focused my shots on the engine room to approximate a torpedo, small merchants have continued sailing relatively unaffected until getting the "she's going down" message. They sink quickly thereafter. However, when I spread my shots to multiple compartments, the ships roll over on the side I targeted before they sink. They tend to roll before getting the "she's going down message" but once they start rolling, they're as good as gone. Seems I have been able to conserve HE rounds doing this. Haven't done a real experiment though.