British S-Boats... Unsinkable?

Thomen · 01-25-09, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

Just goes to show how tough us Tommies really are

The AI boats do have a tendency at times to be slow sinkers

Tough cookies, them Tommies..

Anyways, I disengaged after I hit 2 more times with torpedoes and rammed it aft of it's conning tower and tried to push it under the water, which didn't work either...

Stayed around for around 1 hour overall (incl TC while torp reload).

Jimbuna · 01-25-09, 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thomen

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Just goes to show how tough us Tommies really are

The AI boats do have a tendency at times to be slow sinkers

Tough cookies, them Tommies..

Anyways, I disengaged after I hit 2 more times with torpedoes and rammed it aft of it's conning tower and tried to push it under the water, which didn't work either...

Stayed around for around 1 hour overall (incl TC while torp reload).

Did you receive the message "She's going down" :hmm:

Thomen · 01-25-09, 02:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thomen

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Just goes to show how tough us Tommies really are

The AI boats do have a tendency at times to be slow sinkers

Tough cookies, them Tommies..

Anyways, I disengaged after I hit 2 more times with torpedoes and rammed it aft of it's conning tower and tried to push it under the water, which didn't work either...

Stayed around for around 1 hour overall (incl TC while torp reload).

Did you receive the message "She's going down" :hmm:

Nope.. no message, but some debris floating around the sub.

EDIT: Oh and it's on GWX 3 and SH Commander.

Weiss Pinguin · 01-25-09, 02:56 PM

I've never had any problems sinking submarines in single player missions. :hmm: Maybe they were smuggling ping pong balls?

Jimbuna · 01-25-09, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Weiß Pinguin

I've never had any problems sinking submarines in single player missions. :hmm: Maybe they were smuggling ping pong balls?

........or a secret cargo of life jackets :hmm:

Weiss Pinguin · 01-25-09, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

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Originally Posted by Weiß Pinguin

I've never had any problems sinking submarines in single player missions. :hmm: Maybe they were smuggling ping pong balls?

........or a secret cargo of life jackets :hmm:

Ping pong jackets... Sneaky buggers

A Very Super Market · 01-25-09, 04:18 PM

Perhaps it's like an Ice carrier, only a submarine. Us Canadians are pretty crafty...

Piggy · 01-25-09, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by A Very Super Market

Perhaps it's like an Ice carrier, only a submarine. Us Canadians are pretty crafty...

Hehe... are you reffering to this crazy project...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk

Though it was a british guy that thought it up, which makes sense, you would have to be a little eccentric to come up with something like this. But it was going to be built in canada, we had plenty of pulp.

I sunk a UK sub once, it took a long time to sink but I only had to use one torp...

Weird.

Murr44 · 01-25-09, 03:32 PM

I got into a gunfight with an S-boat once near Brest & it took me a hell of long time to sink it. I ran through over 100 rounds of my 8.8cm ammunition as I was trying to stay at a relatively "safe" distance; out of easy range of her guns. I wasn't about waste a torpedo on such a puny target & I just couldn't hit her guns. The S-boat finally did succumb after about 20-25 minutes (real time). Whenever I encounter them now I avoid engaging them as the risk outweighs any possible reward. They're like MTB's in that you want to swat them but could wind up getting badly stung in the process.

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01-25-09, 03:32 PM	#9
Murr44 Grey Wolf Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 913 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	I got into a gunfight with an S-boat once near Brest & it took me a hell of long time to sink it. I ran through over 100 rounds of my 8.8cm ammunition as I was trying to stay at a relatively "safe" distance; out of easy range of her guns. I wasn't about waste a torpedo on such a puny target & I just couldn't hit her guns. The S-boat finally did succumb after about 20-25 minutes (real time). Whenever I encounter them now I avoid engaging them as the risk outweighs any possible reward. They're like MTB's in that you want to swat them but could wind up getting badly stung in the process.