Advice for noobies

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

I love my sugar boat for its 10 knot submerged speed and its stealthiness. Highly effective boat. By the way a questionnaire posed to sub captains after the war revealed that most of them thought stern torpedoes were a waste of resources.

I tried once to take a S-boat through the war and actually made it to late 43. I wonder if the game doe's see it as a smaller stealthier boat?

I do like having my sterns. I've read a study, maybe the same one that many Skippers thought the sterns worthless. Sort of shocking.

[gAiNiAc]

Originally Posted by Armistead

I do like having my sterns. I've read a study, maybe the same one that many Skippers thought the sterns worthless. Sort of shocking.

The better Skippers employed them well. O'Kane said somewhere that it was bad to have a single ended boat. Having stern tubes gave you options if faced with a last second target radical course change.....

[CaptainMattJ.]

stern tubes pown escorts who are riding you.

[Akula4745]

Originally Posted by gAiNiAc

The better Skippers employed them well. O'Kane said somewhere that it was bad to have a single ended boat. Having stern tubes gave you options if faced with a last second target radical course change.....

Agreed... instead of rotating 360 on a radical course change... you can work inside a 180 degree range with stern tubes.

Originally Posted by I'm goin' down

CatainMattj doesn't have any strong ooooppppiioioonnnsss (heh), deos he? He is in with the Big Boys and just doesn't know it.

Technology cannot fix stupid, fellow skipper. Everything the lad posts is either mis-spelled, caustic, or inane.

[I'm goin' down]

Mattj - let's give him a break for awhile. He is young, and has not worked on his spelling or grammar. That stuff is not easy. As for being brash, he is that. He probably needs his butt kicked, but it ain't going to happen here. We are not in the real Navy.

Using aft torpedoes on stationary destroyers is something I have done, and on destroyers on a course that can be plotted. If not one of those, it is by coincidence or luck.

[ReFaN]

had an S boat, absolutely loved the mark 10's, was given a new sub, stupidly i accepted it. Now i only get premature detonations and duds, >_>

[ReallyDedPoet]

Originally Posted by I'm goin' down

Mattj - let's give him a break for awhile. He is young, and has not worked on his spelling or grammar.

I am glad you feel that way as I edited your post above as well

[Task Force]

I say we just lock this entire thread... this is a thread created by a troll to draw attention...

[I'm goin' down]

Let's talk subs and move on.

[I'm goin' down]

Originally Posted by Akula4745

Technology cannot fix stupid, fellow skipper. Everything the lad posts is either mis-spelled, caustic, or inane.

Ahem. Captain Akukla, sir, I would like to point out sir the you have mispelled "mis-spelled."

Captain sir, in the context of your post regarding the inability to fix a "stupid, fellow skipper", the mispelling of "mispelled ""(a mispelling not caught by any of our beloved, esteemed and very intelligent fellow skippers) leaves me laughing.

[CaptainMattJ.]

. Dont mispeell mispeell! Speel lake ea smat purson

[Rockin Robbins]

It's "smrat", dummy! Where's your spell checker?

[I'm goin' down]

when the cake hits the fan, I am sure there will always be enough to serve everyone, and I am in for a piece, too.

As the man with no name (i.e. Clint Eastwood) said in the "Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," God does not ride with idiots.

[Akula4745]

Originally Posted by I'm goin' down

Ahem. Captain Akula, sir, I would like to point out sir the you have mispelled "mis-spelled."

Nope... that is the correct spelling on my home planet... you Earthlings are just corn-fused.

[CaptainMattJ.]

akula your logo is frightening. :O