Squid Launcher query

[Mush Martin]

Is anybody working on Squid, I havent been but it occured to me as I was
watching a Hedge Hog attack on my boat, that It may be possible to make a
squid out of HH. ie reduce HH to 3 rds / launch (somehow) make the projectiles detonate like current dc's (somehow) as proximity detonator or timing detonator doesnt exist in game, it would still be an effective simulation because of how good the escorts are at hitting you with HH, so using dc type trigger would work fine to simulate, finally you would have to increase the yeild and effect radius of remaining hh projectiles (mini tweek, file analyzer)

the only catch I can see is that it would ruin HH unless theres a way to clone it in under a different name (HHb) or something.

does anybody have any thoughts or suggestions on how to make a working squid launcher without destroying HH in the process??

[Zero Niner]

What's a squid? (Not the sea creature heh :p )

[Vikinger]

You can read all about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid_(weapon)


I think we have talked about this weapon in other post before here.
And iam also still wonder why this weapon didnt go into the the game coz it was quite common weapon on ships. Would be darn hard to avoid an attack from this weapon Coz its activated by the sonar when the sonar tells if a target is in the proximity.

[Mush Martin]

Originally Posted by Zero Niner

What's a squid? (Not the sea creature heh :p )

during the war there were four many types of anti submarine weapons for ships.

Depth charges were dropped of the aft of the ship by rails or thrown outward from the sides of the ship by mortars they had large charges and detonated by Hydrostatic detonator meaning you set the depth for it to go off at and once it reached that depth it would detonate.

HedgeHog was a projector type weapon that launched a multitude of anti submarine mortar bombs out in front of the ship and it would drop them in a circle pattern. Hedge hog was able to fire while the ship still had the sub on sonar unlike depth charges where the sub dissappears from the sonar just before the ship passes over it. hedge hog rounds were designed to sink quickly and would only detonate if they touched something we call this contact detonation

Squid was a three barrelled ASW mortar that could be aimed well out from the ship it was on 50 - 300yds or so it was actually tied into the sonar for fire control where Depth charges and Hedgehogs had submarine positions only reported from sonar. and squid didnt detonate by depth or contact
squid detonated by timing.

the Royal navy Rated hedge hog about three times more effective than depth charges and squid at least twice as effective as Hedge hog Squid
is widely regarded as the wars best ASW weapon.

MM

[Vikinger]

Or could it be,,,,,,,,

http://www.garieinternational.com.sg/clay/squid.htm


:p

[Mush Martin]

Originally Posted by Vikinger

Or could it be,,,,,,,,

http://www.garieinternational.com.sg/clay/squid.htm


:p

Nice:rotfl: