Survivors (SHIV)

[Elektroniikka-Asentaja]

Yes life boats and life rafts give you 1 ton and they are counted as merchants.

And if you don't understand what Dogfish means with rocketship, download Rockin' Robbins' Subnuclear torpedos mod and shoot a destroyer once. It'll end up to knockin' on heavens' door Literally.. Sorry about going off topic but I've wondered many times what would happen if the ship or a plane or something would fell on a warship...

But can anyone confirm is it even possible to take Prisoners of war from those jap life boats or is it just a mod feature?

[MaddogK]

Concur, lifeboats and rafts are sinkable, tho I've never wasted a torpedo on them - they make great practice targets for the deck gun crews.

I also wish we could take POW's from downed A/C or lifeboats.

[Dogfish40]

Originally Posted by MaddogK

Concur, lifeboats and rafts are sinkable, tho I've never wasted a torpedo on them - they make great practice targets for the deck gun crews.

I also wish we could take POW's from downed A/C or lifeboats.

Well, usually you end up hitting a lifeboat by accident when you're going for multiple targets. If you're targets are side by side instead of tandem, the first targets lifeboat just may get in the way of you're next target. Anyhow, by accident. It's frustrating and hilarious at the same time.
Cheers and lols
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[Hylander_1314]

I've seen ships run over rafts and lifeboats. Especially fast moving DDs, and DEs.

Most Japanese airmen and sailors would commit suicide before being taken by the Americans as POWs. There is a video in color over at one site where a downed pilot blows himself up with a grenade instead of being picked up by the sub crew. It's just the way they were. Sadly, it cost the Japanese more in the loss of experienced men in the longrun.

[CSGdesign]

In the earlier days of me playing (not long ago) I used to sink them with AA. Until I got subs that didn't allow the AA to point below the horizon due to being in the nest at the back of the con-tower.

At the time they were plotted on the map for me too, but I seem to have lost that feature for some bizarre reason... now I can only find them by hunting for them with binocs.

I never blew one up with a torpedo though (never tried) and I never had anyone shoot at me.

In fact I pulled right up along side one for a journal once and danced with it for quite awhile trying to get a nice screenshot... it scraped along my side (kinda funny cuz it was all metallic sounding even though it was a rubber life raft) and if they were going to take a shot at me they would have. I ended up sailing off, having gotten the right screenshot for the storyline.

Could be they didn't shoot cuz they weren't armed cuz they came off a fishing boat maybe?

[Dogfish40]

Originally Posted by CSGdesign

In the earlier days of me playing (not long ago) I used to sink them with AA. Until I got subs that didn't allow the AA to point below the horizon due to being in the nest at the back of the con-tower.

At the time they were plotted on the map for me too, but I seem to have lost that feature for some bizarre reason... now I can only find them by hunting for them with binocs.

I never blew one up with a torpedo though (never tried) and I never had anyone shoot at me.

In fact I pulled right up along side one for a journal once and danced with it for quite awhile trying to get a nice screenshot... it scraped along my side (kinda funny cuz it was all metallic sounding even though it was a rubber life raft) and if they were going to take a shot at me they would have. I ended up sailing off, having gotten the right screenshot for the storyline.

Could be they didn't shoot cuz they weren't armed cuz they came off a fishing boat maybe?

I just tried again to get IJN seamen from a life boat to react to anything we did and there was no reaction from them. They definitely did not shoot at the boat. I was a bit disappointed. They were merchantmen however but I've a feeling that the creators of the game probably did not have the time to incorporate this feature. Maybe sometime in the future someone can upgrade one of the lifeboat mods but still, just to get the seamen to shoot at the boat would be a lot of work for a mod (I think).
Good Hunting all!
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