Depth Charge Question

[Penelope_Grey]

Hi guys,

last night I was being depthcharged, I was at 80m and they were not sure of my depth. So they dropped a spread ranging from about 50m down to about 100m I'd guess, some exploded above me but one came down and passed clean through my hull!

Like a ghost charge! lol

has this happened to anybody?

[GoldenRivet]

yeah i have had them pass through me - bot not frequently... at least they dont have a seat right there on your deck without detonating... you would now have this DC just sitting there on the deck! how deep dare you go now? hahaha

[Penelope_Grey]

Are they supposed to hit you and sort of, bounce off? If you are not deep enough for them to explode?

[ReM]

Originally Posted by Penelope_Grey

Are they supposed to hit you and sort of, bounce off? If you are not deep enough for them to explode?

I read about a U Boat that had a depth charge land on it's deck.....and that it hadn't exploded because the detonation depth had not been reached.

After surfacing the crew saw the present lying there waiting....one Chinese volunteer was picked to roll it overboard....

I believe the book was "Das Boot', not sure...

Edit: apparently it happened more than once....this is from USS Gato:
Sixth and seventh war patrols, August 1943 – January 1944

Gato was routed onward to the Mare Island Naval Shipyard for overhaul; returned to Pearl Harbor 22 August 1943; and conducted her sixth war patrol (6 September – 28 October) via Truk and Bougainville in the Solomons to Brisbane. En route on 19 October she attacked a convoy, scoring hits for unknown damage to two large cargo ships. Her seventh war patrol (18 November 1943 – 10 January 1944) took her north of the Bismarck Archipelago. On 30 November she made a coordinated attack with Ray, sinking the cargo ship Columbia Maru. She rescued a Japanese soldier from a life-raft on 16 December; then attacked a convoy in the Saipan-Massau traffic lanes four days later to sink cargo ship Tsuneshima Maru and scored damaging hits on another freighter. After two hours of dodging depth charges, she finally evaded her attackers; surfaced and headed for Tingmon, the most likely course of the damaged cargo ship. Gato discovered a live depth charge on her deck at the same time that two enemy escorts headed in her direction were sighted. She outran them while disposing of the unexploded depth charge by setting it adrift, on a rubber raft.

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[GoldenRivet]

i dont think SH3 models the charges rolling off your deck or bouncing off of you.... i have never noticed that anyhow.

[danurve]

How would you like to be the low man on the todem pole that day :hmm:

[Maraz]

Originally Posted by Penelope_Grey

Hi guys,

last night I was being depthcharged
(...)

I cannot see who could be so utterly hearthless to depthcharge a saltwater sweetie...

Anyway, surely the depth charges have no collision model, so they simply pass through everything before exploding. It seems reasonable to me (to save computing time) because what happened to you is not very frequent.

Maraz

[Jimbuna]

Never had this happen to me personally But I know a couple of kaleuns that have had this experience

[dcb]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

i dont think SH3 models the charges rolling off your deck or bouncing off of you.... i have never noticed that anyhow.

I had one land right on my deck. Believe me or not, but I saw it while in external view, in shallow water. It landed on the deck and just stayed there. It went off after some 2-3 seconds, taking my sub with it. I was too amazed to take a screenshot, but it really was this way. Next time I'll be quicker to pause the game and take the screnshot. Anyway, i'd rather not have this experience once again.

[Penelope_Grey]

Originally Posted by Maraz

I cannot see who could be so utterly hearthless to depthcharge a saltwater sweetie...

Well my brother would depthcharge me in a heartbeat! lol After all those arguments he lost.

Wow ReM that was an awesome post, my god, I know depthcharges are only like supposedly dangerous at their set depth, but jeez would you want to touch one! I wouldn't go near it, in fact I'd have my life jacket ready! LOL

No it was weird cause the charge just went straight through me and then exploded underneat the keel, about 20 m down. I was like

Thank god it didn't destroy my boat! And I managed to escape too, I think the Destroyer thought he got me. LOL I thought he got me too.

[firouz]

According to Kemp in his book HM Submarines, two VCs were earned in the Med. when a British sub (Thrasher I think) surfaced to find two DCs on the deck. The first Leutenant and a Chief Petty Officer volunteered to to get them off. The first could be just rolled over the side. The second was caught between the pressure hull and the outer skin. The two men had to slip inside the space and push/pull the thing out. They were squeezed at full stretch and apparently the DC made some very alarming noises has they got it out. The officer then noted down the details on the outside of it before disposing of it. Took about 20 mins as I recall, and all the time off an enemy shore. Had the enemy shown up, the captain would have to crash dive, drowning the men.

I think they'd have preferred the SH3 version of it disappearing by magic!
:rotfl:

[Lafferty]

once i had a depth charge hit my sub and stayed on my deck and it killed me which sucked.

[Jimbuna]

I think they'd have preferred the SH3 version of it disappearing by magic!

Too right!!