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Originally Posted by Platapus
Two questions about flaming stuff in SH3+GWX2
1. Burning ships. Will a ship that is fully engulfed in flames eventually sink on its own? Can I save ammo by just following it and waiting for it to slowly sink. Or will burning ships just burn and keep on living. I am pretty stingy with my ammo and am always looking for ways to save some for another fight.
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If you like to save ammo chap, use your gun to shoot below the target's floatline, straight through the water. Sometimes you may even score a lucky hit: just today, I broke a coastal cargo in two with three ridiculous 88mm rounds this way - luckily, at medium range, the HE shell must have hit the keel critical point, and this 1500 tons merchant had the dubious privilege to become the best cost-efficient victory of the U-bootwaffe so far in this war...
But more generally, especially with GWX which tries to be very accurate with that kind of damages, hitting an unarmored target under the water will happily and unvariably make her embark tons of water, and although you may have to wait a long (looong) time, this will cost you less rounds than cleaning & incinerating the whole deck, especially with larger freighters.