Scapa Flow Question

[danexpat]

Originally Posted by USNSRCaseySmith

What happened is the hood just listed to the side all four eels hit on heavily. Im just mad because I spent all that time sneaking in without a hitch, fired four perfect angle impacts, which all hit. (they were spread to hit different parts of the ship) and got away with out having a single trashcan dropped on me. All to find out that I didnt in fact sink a single battle ship

Originally Posted by Missing Name

I did the exact same thing in Scapa. Except after the first four hits, I waited a bit, danced with the escorts and fired another four for a total of six hits. Only then did I get credit by reducing it to zero points.

Does the game have the Hood as a BB or BC? I've seen other threads here asking the same question re: sinking in shallow water. Not sure what the consensus is with GWX though. Didn't GWX eliminate overall hit points as part of improved damage modeling?

[Missing Name]

I thought it multiplied the hit points by a large number, making you rely on flooding or hitting bunkers. However, 6 torpedoes seemed to do the trick on a bottomed Hood.

As for BB or BC, the engine sound is the battleship engine sound, plus the ship is EXTREMELY heavy. Yet the guns and armor were pretty light for a battleship... I'll just say that the Hood is only describable as theHood.

[Gargamel]

I recently did a Scapa Flow incursion, followed the historic path that Prien took. Fairly easy to get in if you catch the weather at the right time (good visibility and calm enough you wont get pounded on the bottom). I got stuck outside the harbor for 3 days, had to avoid ASW patrols for that period in 15m water. Little stressful.


Then there wasn't anything worth shooting in there.


Just saying this as a tip for anybody else who want's to try an incursion. It's built into GWX to leave that path open, just do a little research and recon. I found it lots of fun to do my own recon and such, just like Prien.

Originally Posted by Gargamel

I recently did a Scapa Flow incursion, followed the historic path that Prien took. Fairly easy to get in if you catch the weather at the right time (good visibility and calm enough you wont get pounded on the bottom). I got stuck outside the harbor for 3 days, had to avoid ASW patrols for that period in 15m water. Little stressful.


Then there wasn't anything worth shooting in there.


Just saying this as a tip for anybody else who want's to try an incursion. It's built into GWX to leave that path open, just do a little research and recon. I found it lots of fun to do my own recon and such, just like Prien.

What path did he use?? lately (mind you its 1939) Ive been coming from the west then up through that little bottle neck at the south (basically under scapa flow) and been getting in without a hitch, only 2 escorts to avoid really)

[Gargamel]

Originally Posted by USNSRCaseySmith

What path did he use?? lately (mind you its 1939) Ive been coming from the west then up through that little bottle neck at the south (basically under scapa flow) and been getting in without a hitch, only 2 escorts to avoid really)

There's a whole webpage out there dedicated to his raid on Scapa flow. One of the first google results actually. It's good reading. I'll let you figure it out. I will say though the historic route is the easiest. Once you get past the outer patrol, there are no patrols to encounter on your way in. You actually run on the surface the whole way.


Oh heck... www.u47.org there ya go... made it easy for ya.

Edit: And reading the site again, the GWX version is actually easier than historic, probably has to do with the game mechanics and how the barrier ships are placed.

Originally Posted by Gargamel

There's a whole webpage out there dedicated to his raid on Scapa flow. One of the first google results actually. It's good reading. I'll let you figure it out. I will say though the historic route is the easiest. Once you get past the outer patrol, there are no patrols to encounter on your way in. You actually run on the surface the whole way.


Oh heck... www.u47.org there ya go... made it easy for ya.

Edit: And reading the site again, the GWX version is actually easier than historic, probably has to do with the game mechanics and how the barrier ships are placed.

Danke!

[Missing Name]

Cool site...