How odd!? but still one more sent to the bottom!

Melonfish · 07-20-09, 07:01 AM

Okay its the end of 39 well ok its dec 5th 39 and i'm in hartleypool (love raiding this dock) anyways i'm sat 10m off one of the walls inside the harbour when a destroyer swings in pinging away with its asdic, anyway its turning circle is dire so it ends up behind me!
with the phrase "Ping this" i fired my stern tube (no really i am that cheesy) only to see the damned thing bounce off his hull!
then explode on the harbour floor.

ok here's the wierd bit.

It holed the destroyer, she started taking on water by the bow and eventually sunk, although i never got the recognition for the kill and tbh it never showed as a wreck on my map screen either...
usually if i see a boat sink it marks it in game..
odd error but damned satisfying i can only assume that either the torpedo smashed the plating or the bubble of exploding gas cracked some bow plating on her and she took on water.

i officially sank 7 cargo ships and an armed trawler in that dock that day and that was after sinking 3 on my patrol grid not to mention some more slipping out of hartleypool too.

tonnage for patrol 47686
torpedo's left 1
deck gun rounds left 12
medals all round

Task Force · 07-20-09, 07:03 AM

reminds me of my early war dover raid.

Jimbuna · 07-20-09, 11:21 AM

The chances are the DD sank in too shallow water to be classified as sunk by the game engine.

BulSoldier · 07-20-09, 11:47 AM

When the torp hit the hull of a ship and doesnt blow up it sink and blow either when hitting the bottom or at some particular moment.It seems that torp blew up because of the bottom but in this case that was TOO close to the keel of the destroyer.

Ford Prefect · 07-20-09, 07:40 PM

I've put two eels into a stubbord oil tanker before now and not gotten kill credit for it. That seriously p***ed on my battery at the time!

07-20-09, 07:01 AM	#1
Melonfish XO Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Warrington, UK Posts: 417 Downloads: 106 Uploads: 0	How odd!? but still one more sent to the bottom! Okay its the end of 39 well ok its dec 5th 39 and i'm in hartleypool (love raiding this dock) anyways i'm sat 10m off one of the walls inside the harbour when a destroyer swings in pinging away with its asdic, anyway its turning circle is dire so it ends up behind me! with the phrase "Ping this" i fired my stern tube (no really i am that cheesy) only to see the damned thing bounce off his hull! then explode on the harbour floor. ok here's the wierd bit. It holed the destroyer, she started taking on water by the bow and eventually sunk, although i never got the recognition for the kill and tbh it never showed as a wreck on my map screen either... usually if i see a boat sink it marks it in game.. odd error but damned satisfying i can only assume that either the torpedo smashed the plating or the bubble of exploding gas cracked some bow plating on her and she took on water. i officially sank 7 cargo ships and an armed trawler in that dock that day and that was after sinking 3 on my patrol grid not to mention some more slipping out of hartleypool too. tonnage for patrol 47686 torpedo's left 1 deck gun rounds left 12 medals all round

07-20-09, 07:03 AM	#2
Task Force Rear Admiral Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: SPACE!!!! Posts: 10,142 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	reminds me of my early war dover raid. __________________ Task Force industries "Taking control of the world, one mind at a time"

07-20-09, 11:21 AM	#3
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,500 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	The chances are the DD sank in too shallow water to be classified as sunk by the game engine. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

07-20-09, 11:47 AM	#4
BulSoldier Samurai Navy Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Burgas/Bulgaria Posts: 550 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	When the torp hit the hull of a ship and doesnt blow up it sink and blow either when hitting the bottom or at some particular moment.It seems that torp blew up because of the bottom but in this case that was TOO close to the keel of the destroyer. __________________ By the hour !

07-20-09, 07:40 PM	#5
Ford Prefect Planesman Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire Posts: 184 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	I've put two eels into a stubbord oil tanker before now and not gotten kill credit for it. That seriously p***ed on my battery at the time! __________________ http://www.flickr.com/photos/halfpenny/sets/ http://www.youtube.com/user/Thunderf00t Home of "why people laugh at creationists" http://www.youtube.com/user/FFreeThinker http://www.youtube.com/user/ExtantDodo