Realism or fluke?

ciphrix · 09-19-07, 08:11 AM

So there I was on my luxuary cruise of the Pacific, compliments of the american taxpayers, hitting a few golf balls and knocking back a couple of cold ones, when Bob my sonar guy said there was a whole bunch of ships coming my way. Thinking that a big ugly Japanese battleship would ruin the view, and to contribute to this war effort thing everyone keeps talking about, I'll throw a few torps in their general direction.

So I moved around a bit and lined up my shots, making sure none of the escorting destroyers or any other ship would block my shots, I fired off 4 torps at the Kongo BB. Naturally one of my Made In China torps detonated not 50 meters from the tube, alerting everyone and their mothers within a 10nm of my location, but more importantly spilling my Latte Macchiato...anyhoo 4-1=3 (I went to college), and 3 should be enough. BUT to my surprise, the port escort DD picked up speed but instead of coming for me, ran right into the path of 2 of my torps...so like what gives? Did he know that my torps was on target and sacrificed itself to save the BB? I heard during the war thats what DD escorts were supposed to do as a last resort (well obviously as a last resort as I doubt they'd do it for sh!ts and giggles)

So was it just a fluke or did that DD meant to do that?

And whats with torps exploding early? Even when set to Contact only? And does the paint contain any lead?

09-19-07, 08:11 AM	#1
ciphrix Nub Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 2 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Realism or fluke? So there I was on my luxuary cruise of the Pacific, compliments of the american taxpayers, hitting a few golf balls and knocking back a couple of cold ones, when Bob my sonar guy said there was a whole bunch of ships coming my way. Thinking that a big ugly Japanese battleship would ruin the view, and to contribute to this war effort thing everyone keeps talking about, I'll throw a few torps in their general direction. So I moved around a bit and lined up my shots, making sure none of the escorting destroyers or any other ship would block my shots, I fired off 4 torps at the Kongo BB. Naturally one of my Made In China torps detonated not 50 meters from the tube, alerting everyone and their mothers within a 10nm of my location, but more importantly spilling my Latte Macchiato...anyhoo 4-1=3 (I went to college), and 3 should be enough. BUT to my surprise, the port escort DD picked up speed but instead of coming for me, ran right into the path of 2 of my torps...so like what gives? Did he know that my torps was on target and sacrificed itself to save the BB? I heard during the war thats what DD escorts were supposed to do as a last resort (well obviously as a last resort as I doubt they'd do it for sh!ts and giggles) So was it just a fluke or did that DD meant to do that? And whats with torps exploding early? Even when set to Contact only? And does the paint contain any lead?