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Originally Posted by Sardaukar67
Problem is that RFB Natural Sinking Model seems to be bit ahistorical. Ships did often sink because of loss of balance, not flooding per se (IMHO). That is well-documented as is number of exploding torpedo hits to achieve sinking.
Now, hits to same compartment do not help at all, while in reality, they'd cause critical results quite often, up to breaking ship in two.
Something like
http://www.combinedfleet.com/shoksinknotes.htm
It often takes me 6 exploding hits to sing large freighter...which is way above historical numbers. I try to be constructive, instead of griping, tho. There obviously was large amount of work that went towards this mod and generally I have been very happy with it. |
It does mention her being ripped apart after explosions from the magazine. It also says her bow was in the water and she began taking on water from the forward elevator. If that was the case the deck had to be below or extremely low in the water. If she did rupture at this point it , in my opinion, it would have been more likely blamed on structural strains caused by the lifting of the stern from the water and/or weakened steel due to the burning oil, and aviation fuel, not to mention the thousands of pounds of ordinance that was on board.
Just trying to say the majority of ships sunk would have been caused by the loss of neutral buoyancy due to the intake of water. Also worth pointing out that in this case the bow going down first may have cause the Shokaku to driver herself into the water if she was accelerating to evade.