Sinking Times

AS · 11-14-06, 10:00 AM

Since this seems to be the thread for the frustrated one, I´d like to add my two cents: Needed 8 torps to sink a 4000tons merchant. MAYBE the merchant would have sunk after 5 or 6, but you don´t always have the time to wait 48 hours just to confirm the sinking. Absolutely unrealistic anyway, as such a medium sized merchant would be blown out of the water after one (or 2) hits in reality. As much as i like the idea of realistic sinking times in GW, I´m convinced they overdo by far!

Another strange GW-incidence happened when I aft-torped a destroyer that was chasing me. I hit him in the bow (a lucky shot!), guess what happened? The destroyer slowed down and then was stopped (ENGINE FAILURE WHEN HIT IN THE BOW???) like a lame duck, waiting for me to finish her off. In real life, destroyers that were hit in the bow-area went down like a submarine, because of their high speed they sort of "swallowed" all the incoming water and usually sank within minutes!

Please don´t get me wrong here: I love and appreciate the modders´ work and don´t want to miss it, but there are some things that really need to be tweaked. Remember Erich Topp´s comment on SH? "In real life it was much easier to sink ships" :rotfl:

11-14-06, 10:00 AM	#17
AS 中国水兵 Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Germany Posts: 275 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 0	Since this seems to be the thread for the frustrated one, I´d like to add my two cents: Needed 8 torps to sink a 4000tons merchant. MAYBE the merchant would have sunk after 5 or 6, but you don´t always have the time to wait 48 hours just to confirm the sinking. Absolutely unrealistic anyway, as such a medium sized merchant would be blown out of the water after one (or 2) hits in reality. As much as i like the idea of realistic sinking times in GW, I´m convinced they overdo by far! Another strange GW-incidence happened when I aft-torped a destroyer that was chasing me. I hit him in the bow (a lucky shot!), guess what happened? The destroyer slowed down and then was stopped (ENGINE FAILURE WHEN HIT IN THE BOW???) like a lame duck, waiting for me to finish her off. In real life, destroyers that were hit in the bow-area went down like a submarine, because of their high speed they sort of "swallowed" all the incoming water and usually sank within minutes! Please don´t get me wrong here: I love and appreciate the modders´ work and don´t want to miss it, but there are some things that really need to be tweaked. Remember Erich Topp´s comment on SH? "In real life it was much easier to sink ships" :rotfl: __________________ Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. (Oscar Wilde)