Excerpt from "Silent Sea" about Tankers

banjo · 05-09-07, 12:02 PM

From "Silent Sea" by Harry Homewood:

"We've had reports from submarine Captains who tell us of hitting a tanker with as many as six torpedoes, hitting them in the sides of the hull. Those tankers are so compartmentalized that they can suck up a half-dozen torpedos at or below their waterlines."

Remarks from Admiral Christies staff.

AVGWarhawk · 05-09-07, 12:29 PM

Just bought this book today

. Now I guess our tankers are set up like the RL counterpart.

banjo · 05-09-07, 12:31 PM

I found the Prologue very insightful.

AVGWarhawk · 05-09-07, 12:34 PM

I found it on Amazon for $12.50 and that included shipping

Silence · 05-09-07, 12:45 PM

So, what is the best way to sink one of these compartmentilized torpedo-proof ships?

banjo · 05-09-07, 02:09 PM

I just tried something I discovered in SH3--shot torps at 3 tankers at the default depth. Sank two with two torps and one with 1 torp. It was always my opinion in SH3 that the default depth setting was as effective or more so than messing with them. I am beginning to think that's true in this game as well.

Sailor Steve · 05-10-07, 10:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Silence

So, what is the best way to sink one of these compartmentilized torpedo-proof ships?

Try to break his back. Nobody sails away when he's in two pieces.

05-09-07, 12:02 PM	#1
banjo Grey Wolf Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 762 Downloads: 55 Uploads: 0	Excerpt from "Silent Sea" about Tankers From "Silent Sea" by Harry Homewood: "We've had reports from submarine Captains who tell us of hitting a tanker with as many as six torpedoes, hitting them in the sides of the hull. Those tankers are so compartmentalized that they can suck up a half-dozen torpedos at or below their waterlines." Remarks from Admiral Christies staff.

05-09-07, 12:29 PM	#2
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,277 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Just bought this book today. Now I guess our tankers are set up like the RL counterpart. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

05-09-07, 12:34 PM	#4
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,277 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	I found it on Amazon for $12.50 and that included shipping __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

05-09-07, 12:45 PM	#5
Silence Watch Join Date: May 2007 Location: Nebraska, U.S. Posts: 17 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	So, what is the best way to sink one of these compartmentilized torpedo-proof ships? __________________ "No matter where you travel, when you meet a guy who's been... There's an instant kind of friendship 'cause we're brothers of the 'phin." - Robert Reed, G.W. Carver (SSBN-656)

05-09-07, 12:31 PM	#3
banjo Grey Wolf Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 762 Downloads: 55 Uploads: 0	I found the Prologue very insightful.

05-09-07, 02:09 PM	#6
banjo Grey Wolf Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 762 Downloads: 55 Uploads: 0	I just tried something I discovered in SH3--shot torps at 3 tankers at the default depth. Sank two with two torps and one with 1 torp. It was always my opinion in SH3 that the default depth setting was as effective or more so than messing with them. I am beginning to think that's true in this game as well.