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BasilY · 07-03-08, 12:18 PM

Just spend 40 deck gun hits, 2 torp hits on a tramp steamer. While her companion a large merchant go down with 1 shot.

This is my second GWX career, I have gotten a handle on the larger ships (and warships as well). Most will go down with 1 hit (merchant with bow shot, even DDs go down with 1 hit almost anywhere and faster too). But the little merchants, tramp streamers, P/Cs coastal merchants, Yikes. They are tougher than destroyers (hack, even tougher than escort cariers). I rarely sink them with 1 torp and while I have deck gunned aquitania with 10-15 deck guns and less, the little merchants took as much if not more. With this kind of battle survivability, the admiralty might as well make them into warships.

A sloop took me 5 deck gun shots last patrol too, and I am using larger rounds of a type IX (first time I try a type IX seriously with mixed results)

Am I missing some trick shots?

07-03-08, 12:18 PM	#1
BasilY Weps Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 359 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Dang little buggers Just spend 40 deck gun hits, 2 torp hits on a tramp steamer. While her companion a large merchant go down with 1 shot. This is my second GWX career, I have gotten a handle on the larger ships (and warships as well). Most will go down with 1 hit (merchant with bow shot, even DDs go down with 1 hit almost anywhere and faster too). But the little merchants, tramp streamers, P/Cs coastal merchants, Yikes. They are tougher than destroyers (hack, even tougher than escort cariers). I rarely sink them with 1 torp and while I have deck gunned aquitania with 10-15 deck guns and less, the little merchants took as much if not more. With this kind of battle survivability, the admiralty might as well make them into warships. A sloop took me 5 deck gun shots last patrol too, and I am using larger rounds of a type IX (first time I try a type IX seriously with mixed results) Am I missing some trick shots?