Single merchants VS. Convoys

[Tijn]

First of al, i;m using SH3 with GW v1.1a, and i like it very much but i'm wondering about the damage model. I like the way ships shik and not just explode after one torp. but is it just me that ships in convoys just need as much trops. as single merchants. Last night i sunk a liberty cargo that cost me 3 torps and about 30 shells of HE. Later that patrol a attacked a convoy south of Iceland and i had 3 torps in front and 1 in the stern. I took out 1 C3 and 1 C2 with 3 torps in front of me and 1 Small merchant behind me. The two large schips broke in half and the SM blow up.

Does anyone know the difference between these two situations? It hapend a couple of times before.

Grtz Tijn

[HunterICX]

The important things to know are the ships weak spots.

also the damage model works with floodings
so an ship can take hours before she decides to go down.

but when you hit an ship on the weak spot it will sink a lot faster.

here's an page with the Weak spots of an ship.
http://www.communitymanuals.com/shii...hip_Weak_Spots

Good luck

[Biggles]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

also the damage model works with floodings
so an ship can take hours before she decides to go down.

but when you hit an ship on the weak spot it will sink a lot faster

Is there any chance to change that in GW? I don't have the mod yet, but I really want to have it, allthough I think that this very detail will make me not to download it. I don't want to hang around for hours just for one ship!!!!!And I don't want one merchant to swallow all my eels either!

[Tijn]

@Biggles

That's what i was worried about to. But as you can read in my post i still can sink a lot of ships with one or two torps. You don't have to wait for hours every time. It happins to me once in a while. The funny thing is though that this usually happens with lone merchants. I guess you just have to practice to hit the sweat spot. For me it's more fun while i was getting bored of getting 80K+ every single patrol. This is more rewarding and challinging.

grtz Tijn

[Biggles]

Hmmm...yes, perhaps........but still.....there is nothing more annoying then when you have to spend a lot of time for something that usually takes a coupple of minutes. I think I'd LOVE the GW, but this fact I think is still disturbing

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by Biggles

Hmmm...yes, perhaps........but still.....there is nothing more annoying then when you have to spend a lot of time for something that usually takes a coupple of minutes. I think I'd LOVE the GW, but this fact I think is still disturbing

Its a question of balance
Ships didnt all go down in 2\3 minutes
Some hung around for hours\days
Some ships reported as sunk by a uboat were indeed towed back in for repair as the captain didnt watch the ship actually go down but reported a kill on the strength of the torpedo hits