Rodney must go down!!! Any advice how?

[Vergif]

Hi fellow seapredators,

I'm on my 3th patrol out of Wilhelmshaven
After a good patrol south of Ireland (46.000 tons fed to the fishes) I decided to return to base with 3 eels left, 2 in the bow 1 in stern, in case anything juicy came along. I took St Geoges canal but only to run into trawlers and schooners.The gun crew had their practice and made short work of them. Then when I just passed Loch Ewe the radioman disturbed my beauty sleep to give me a message about some taskforce spotted at 25 kts 2 grids away and running straight for me. Guess they had to be home for tea time I made a quick guestemation of where I should be to intercept them. I speed over there and submerge, let 3 hours pass and the sonar man comes to life. Multiple contacts closing fast. I plot their paths and position the boat. Lucky for me I was 1200 meters from the center of the taskforce at a textbook 90° angle . I let the first screen pass which was to busy steaming home to notice me, pop up the scope tot see the HSM Rodney comming my way with 2 southhampton cruisers beside her all running deep and heavy in a rough sea, It's difficult to get a good fix on her because of the huge waves and heavy rain. Now I want her to go down any advice on where to hit her? Since I only got 2 torps left in the bow these'll have to do till I get my VIIB's fanny turned on her for a stern shot.

I am running SHIII 1.4 with GWX 2.1 and SH3 Commander running at 67% realism (still getting into the manual targeting thing)

Thanks in advance,
Oberleutnant z. s.
Michael Pfister

[moosey]

If you know where the ammo bunkers are then you could try aiming for there but what i would do with 2 torps and a spare would be to try to send one bellow the screws to explode magnetically to leave it dead in the water and send the other one once again below but amidship below the funnel.

THis should get some flooding going and make it unable to run away at 30 knots. for the third torpedo once youve turned try to aim for the ammo bunkers, but you never know, 3 good hits could sink it without the ammo bunker fireworks.

Also, im playing GWX 2.1 and it seems i cannot find any enemy task forces, they all seem to dissapear once i get near, how many times have i been told of one going north between scotland and outer hebrides or down the east coast with me sitting straight in the way only to make no surface or sound contacts... AAAARGH!!!!!

Ive managed a few though they were the scripted ones for the norwegian campaign, camped outside the fjord leading to Narvik and bagged myself a battleship and a few destroyers.

[Vergif]

Hehe, if I only knew where the ammo was kept. In stock SHIII you had the different parts of the ship identified in your recognition manual, which was easy to aim and set yout depth on. But since GWX they are gone. I should've taken the time to study them

[JuanCudz]

I think you will find the ships magazines to be directly below the turrets, fore and aft.

There is a pdf with the vullnerable areas of stock vanilla ships in SH3
http://files.filefront.com/shipchart.../fileinfo.html

No Rodney I'm afraid, but it might give you an idea

[STEED]

Vergif, what year are you in?

I sunk the Rodney so many times its become a running joke.

[Vergif]

It's 25 september 1939. And JuanCudz thanks for the chart this is what i was looking for, Rodney = Nelson class ship. Does anyone know if GWX 2.1 alters these spots? And whats the best way to sink them STEED, since you're an expert ? The thing why I don't want to botch this is because it is the first BB i've ever seen in a career, just my luck it's at the end of my patrol with only 3 torps left .

[superfecta]

First get within 1000m or less then make sure you are as close to 90 deg (abeam) as possible (I've never been more than 3 deg off, so I don't know how much leeway there may be) "lock" on your target, click on "ship" on the note pad (periscope view) this will bring up the recognition manual to page of the ship you are looking at. If you are within range and near perpendicular, small "boxes" will appear on the manual page click on one of these and your torp will go to this spot ( be it fuel bunker, engine room, ammo, etc.) Ammo bunkers should sink a ship in one shot. (and produce the most spectacular explosion).

[conus00]

Originally Posted by JuanCudz

I think you will find the ships magazines to be directly below the turrets, fore and aft.

There is a pdf with the vullnerable areas of stock vanilla ships in SH3
http://files.filefront.com/shipchart.../fileinfo.html

No Rodney I'm afraid, but it might give you an idea

Great file JuanCudz. Can you tell me what do the orange and blue areas indicate?
yellow=engine room
green=propellers
violet=ammo magazines
blue=?
orange=?

Thanks.

[Mush Martin]

Be more agressive

Ok I found the foreward magazine now what?

[JuanCudz]

[quote=conus00]

Originally Posted by JuanCudz

blue=?
orange=?

Thanks.

Blue is the keel, where you might break the back of the boat (unlikely)
Orange is the fuel bunker, another choice target.