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Originally Posted by BasilY
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Originally Posted by rifleman13
I agree, a ship that carries any kind of fuel in her cargo hold should light up like a Roman candle!  |
Hitting fuel in cargo area doesn't necessarily lead to explosion. See Mythbuster regarding the myth about shooting at a gas tanks. For there to be an explosion, the fuel/air mixture must be in the right range. Different type of fuel is also important, Crude is not too combustible, even fuel oil such as diesel need the right condition to explode, where as kerozene will really get the fire work started quite quickly.
That said, once the fire get started, any type of fuel will most likely consume the ship, metal and all. However, in SH3/GWX, those dedicated merchant crew will never abandon ship even while they are being burnt to a crisp by tens of thousands gallons of fuel. They will keep manning the deck gun till the ship goes down...  |
That was using BULLETS not High explosive torpedoes, big difference there. Does rather depend on what kind of fuel a tanker was carrying though. It should certainly be a lot more flammable at least, and if it's carrying aviation fuel then it would DEFINITELY explode! Aviation fuel tankers were famous for doing so when hit in ww2.