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Old 08-23-08, 06:37 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by cj95
But when it takes me 62 shells to sink a tugboat!!! (I counted) and almost an hour of real time waiting for the silly thing to reload.
Unfortunately the reload times are going to be unrealistic no matter what you do, because with the game it's either feast or famine. In perfect weather the stock reload times are fine, but in real-world conditions with the boat pitching and rolling they are ridiculously fast. Slow them down and you get more realistic average times but everybody percieves them as hideously slow.

As for the amount of shells needed to sink a 500-ton tugboat, here's a dose of reality: it took this u-boat 17 shells to sink a fishing boat less than one-tenth that size.
http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/1736.html
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