Pick your target

[Tessa]

You're patrolling around AN11 (quite the dangerous assignment) and it's you're lucky day: In looking over to Scapa Flow you can see the Hood and another batteship moored there; then you see the Murmansk convoy incoming with the escorts The Ark Royal and The Illustrious, plus a 5 column convoy with what you can easily make out to be 3 or 4 large tankers.

Though the problem didn't get fixed till years later, lets assume that the magnetic detonators work correctly in case you want to test your skill in hitting the sweet spot. So which would you go for?

[GoDeep]

I'd go for the carrier, because in all my years of playing SHIII, I've never managed to actually sink one...

[sergei]

I'd go for the flat-tops too.

[HW3]

The flat tops, I would hate to deprive the Bismark of her great victory over the Hood.

[raymond6751]

This many years later we all know the aircraft made the battleship obsolete. Back then, hmmm. Air power was yet to prove itself.

Whatever you pick, don't get greedy. Take down one major one and then try to survive. You want that party back home!

[sergei]

Originally Posted by raymond6751

This many years later we all know the aircraft made the battleship obsolete. Back then, hmmm. Air power was yet to prove itself.

Valid point raymond6751.

I would be concerned about hitting the moored battlecruiser and it not sinking deep enough for me to get the credit.
But that's an SH3 issue, not a realism issue

[papa_smurf]

I'd go for the tankers

[Synthfg]

Be more Aggressive
Sink em all

[Arctic wolf]

I think I'll be greedy and try to take as many as I can

[Jimbuna]

Go for the carriers.....but pinch yersel first and ensure your not dreaming

[STEED]

Go for the tankers, without fuel the RN is stuck in port, are what the heck, sink what you want and nuts to the rest of us.

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Go for the carriers.....but pinch yersel first and ensure your not dreaming

Sadly I've lost all my archives of old screenshots Have gone into Scapa a time or two and the fleet that was moored there just 1 day before Prien made it into there was all there: the Hood, a flat top, couple of London Class ships and a floating dock or two for easy tonnage. Was one of two times that I managed to sink the Hood with just 2 eels, both magnetic right under the #2 and 3 turrets. Some of the ships that the Brits just leave parked out in the open have blown my mind

Though the flat tops are undoubtedly the best strategic targets to go after, sinking the Hood, Rodney or Nelson is just satisfying knowing that the morale hit taken when a big like that sinks is enormously devastating to the enemy. Even before wwii had began Billy Mitchell proved that a battleship (actually a Dreadnaught at the time) could be sunk by a handfull of planes; too bad only ones that really took notice were the Japanese of this accomplishment and its signifigance. After Jutland there was only 1 more major naval engagement in conventional warfare where the big ships were the ones that duked it out (the Bismark withstanding).

Personally I think anything bigger than a DD or anti-submarine ship was gravely missued. Using naval artillery was a whole lot safer being able to fire salvo's 15-25 miles offshore than having to risk an entire artillery company when the targets were well within the ship's main battery's range.

[PaulH513]

Originally Posted by Synthfg

Be more Aggressive
Sink em all

Jimbuna

Plagiarism.....Bloody Plagiarism I say

[Melonfish]

Actually the hit and duck sounds good. hit your prefered target then sit in the basin next to a big ship so the dd's can't get you.

[maillemaker]

I'd put two magnetics in each warship.

Steve