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Originally Posted by Steeltrap
Great pics!
I don't want to detract from your experience - and none of what I say is meant to do so - but I've always found the disconnect between the number of torps required to sink a capital ship and the number for some crappy merchant to be a major issue.
Capital ships had massive buoyancy, dedicated and well-trainined damage control teams, large numbers of pumps and other damage control equipment, large numbers of compartments, torpedo 'bulges', ability to counter-flood etc etc: in other words, they were designed to take quite a bit of damage AND survive it. Most merchants weren't compartmentalised to any great extent, their transverse bulkheads were often weak, they weren't drilled in damage control, nor were they really well equipped for it, yet you can put 2 torps in a large merchant and it mightn't sink immediately, while the same 2 torps sink a capital ship.....NUTS!!!!
Most merchants sank from a single torp, and most within 20 mins of being struck (and often much more quickly). Most light cruisers sunk by torps only took 1 to do so. Most capital ships - especially battleships - were much more difficult to sink. I think the sim does a poor job of handling this difference, although I believe it is largely due to the limitations of how SH3 assigns damage/durability.
Despite all that....great effort (especially surviving the 8hrs DC attacks  ).
Just curious - and not implying anything about the effort - what sort of difficulty do you run at? I don't think I'm at a skill level where I'd get shots off at those beasties so effectively!! |
I agree with all you said here and I believe but if you take a look at the amount of torpedoes I have used it (sort off) makes sense: Revenge sunk after being hit by only two, but as I stated one of them hit the forward magazine and literally tore here apart - I got lucky. I believe that it is possible even in real life. Hood got two torpedoes and it didn't even phase her. She was listing fairly heavily but didn't slow down and escaped. Rodney here is the most unlikely sinking: two torpedoes in the very aft (they both almost missed) and then coup de grace to the midsection. I agree in a real life it is most unlikely to happen...
To answer your question: I am running somewhere around 65-70% realism. Can't remember exactly.
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Originally Posted by jimbuna
Pah!, beginners luck :p
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Jim, don't let the amount of posts fool you. I have been playing sub simulators since Silent Service II. I just recently discovered Subsim....
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Originally Posted by Wildhawke11
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Any chance you could give me a link to your officer faces from Das Boot, i have some but yours look really good. Just wish i could also get Thompson's pic would love to take him on my boat  Great looking pics you posted.
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I have sent you a PM.