Splash damage from exploding ships

neumie92 · 06-25-14, 10:21 PM

I learned something new today DO NOT sink a ship when you are like 20 feet away from it. I was using my deck gun and then the ship exploded. Suddenly i heard the OH MEIN GOTT!!! sound and so i was like "crap what happened"? So i pulled up the crew management screen. About half my crew was either dead or injured and every compartment was red. I could not stop the flooding and my boat was lost

So remember don't be a derp like me

Aktungbby · 06-25-14, 10:56 PM

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desirableroasted · 06-26-14, 12:12 AM

Yeah, it pays to stand off a safe distance.

Pisces · 06-26-14, 05:07 AM

A hard learned lesson indeed!

Jimbuna · 06-26-14, 07:08 AM

Now you know why boarding isn't allowed ingame

maillemaker · 06-26-14, 01:57 PM

Yup, I believe the damage limit is 200m. Could be wrong though.

Steve

maillemaker · 06-26-14, 03:27 PM

Oh, and so ya know, it's not just shooting it that can make it go boom. Sometimes while they are sinking they go boom all on their own, and that will get you to, like, say, if you were posed next to it for a screen shot or something...

Steve

GJO · 06-27-14, 04:49 AM

It is one of those lessons that we all have needed to learn - safe distance is 200 Metres . . .

Jimbuna · 06-27-14, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by maillemaker

Yup, I believe the damage limit is 200m. Could be wrong though.

Steve

Depends on the damage zone settings of the victims as well as your boat but 200 metere in the majority of cases.

Sailor Steve · 06-27-14, 09:10 AM

I remember the first time I shelled a ship at close range and had it explode and kill the entire bridge crew. It was in the gunnery training course.

Admiral Halsey · 06-27-14, 10:13 AM

Done this more times then I care to admit while trying to blast a ship in the fog.

maillemaker · 06-27-14, 10:37 AM

Quote:

I remember the first time I shelled a ship at close range and had it explode and kill the entire bridge crew.

Hey, ya'll! Watch this!

Steve

Ifernat · 06-27-14, 07:30 PM

Kind of curious why you're getting that close in the first place. My experience has been that that the sweet spot is a range to target of roughly 700-1000m for the deck gun. Farther away and it gets increasingly difficult to reliably pump shells into the vitals...any closer and it becomes difficult to get enough shell drop to hit the target BELOW the waterline. At 500m you're essentially firing the shells flat.

A target at 400 m or less is only going to take a waterline hit if you use the downward roll. Doing that though tends to result in the occasional shell getting planted smack into the face of a wave halfway to the target.

Now for the flak gun 300-400 m makes sense. Though the kinds of targets that you'd use the flak gun on its usually less a case of doing waterline damage than it is simply pouring a few clips straight into an engine or fuel tank.

Jimbuna · 06-28-14, 05:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Ifernat

Kind of curious why you're getting that close in the first place.

They're all inexperienced amatuers

jscharpf · 06-28-14, 07:17 AM

Been there, done that

First time was when I scored a torpedo hit and the ship was sinking slowly so I wanted to get close and watch it sink, I crawled up next to it and at one point I saw the message "she's going down!" followed by some explosions and I find myself at the main screen with my entire crew dead.

06-25-14, 10:21 PM	#1
neumie92 Nub Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 2 Downloads: 97 Uploads: 0	Splash damage from exploding ships I learned something new today DO NOT sink a ship when you are like 20 feet away from it. I was using my deck gun and then the ship exploded. Suddenly i heard the OH MEIN GOTT!!! sound and so i was like "crap what happened"? So i pulled up the crew management screen. About half my crew was either dead or injured and every compartment was red. I could not stop the flooding and my boat was lost So remember don't be a derp like me

06-25-14, 10:56 PM	#2
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 29,987 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Welcome back! NEUMIE92 after a silent running! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

06-26-14, 12:12 AM	#3
desirableroasted Grey Wolf Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: In the mountains, now. On the edge of the sea before. Posts: 933 Downloads: 47 Uploads: 0	Yeah, it pays to stand off a safe distance. __________________ "Well, now, that's true... the IXC is a bit of a chick magnet..but you really can't beat the VIIB for off-road fun."

06-26-14, 07:08 AM	#5
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,481 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Now you know why boarding isn't allowed ingame __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

06-27-14, 09:10 AM	#10
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I remember the first time I shelled a ship at close range and had it explode and kill the entire bridge crew. It was in the gunnery training course. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

06-26-14, 05:07 AM	#4
Pisces Silent Hunter Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: AN9771 Posts: 4,904 Downloads: 304 Uploads: 0	A hard learned lesson indeed!

06-26-14, 01:57 PM	#6
maillemaker Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,639 Downloads: 75 Uploads: 0	Yup, I believe the damage limit is 200m. Could be wrong though. Steve

06-26-14, 03:27 PM	#7
maillemaker Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,639 Downloads: 75 Uploads: 0	Oh, and so ya know, it's not just shooting it that can make it go boom. Sometimes while they are sinking they go boom all on their own, and that will get you to, like, say, if you were posed next to it for a screen shot or something... Steve

06-27-14, 04:49 AM	#8
GJO Engineer Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: On the Oxford Canal in England Posts: 202 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	It is one of those lessons that we all have needed to learn - safe distance is 200 Metres . . .

06-27-14, 10:13 AM	#11
Admiral Halsey Best Admiral in the USN Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: USS Enterprise (CV-6) Posts: 1,740 Downloads: 317 Uploads: 0	Done this more times then I care to admit while trying to blast a ship in the fog.

06-27-14, 07:30 PM	#13
Ifernat Watch Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 20 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	Kind of curious why you're getting that close in the first place. My experience has been that that the sweet spot is a range to target of roughly 700-1000m for the deck gun. Farther away and it gets increasingly difficult to reliably pump shells into the vitals...any closer and it becomes difficult to get enough shell drop to hit the target BELOW the waterline. At 500m you're essentially firing the shells flat. A target at 400 m or less is only going to take a waterline hit if you use the downward roll. Doing that though tends to result in the occasional shell getting planted smack into the face of a wave halfway to the target. Now for the flak gun 300-400 m makes sense. Though the kinds of targets that you'd use the flak gun on its usually less a case of doing waterline damage than it is simply pouring a few clips straight into an engine or fuel tank.

06-28-14, 07:17 AM	#15
jscharpf Frogman Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Bucharest, Romania Posts: 296 Downloads: 325 Uploads: 0	Been there, done that First time was when I scored a torpedo hit and the ship was sinking slowly so I wanted to get close and watch it sink, I crawled up next to it and at one point I saw the message "she's going down!" followed by some explosions and I find myself at the main screen with my entire crew dead.