Fuso Battleship

Daniel Prates · 04-14-11, 03:41 PM

There are some historical examples of how a ship can simply blow up with just that one, single lucky hit. Or sometimes not even that. Examples would be the Lusitania (where apparently air-sprayed coal powder in the fuel deposits increased dramaticly the effects of a german WWI torpedo) or the Maine (where pure and simple design flaws accounted for the ship's explosion, credited for many years to a spanish mine laid in the harbor of havana).

So if those things can happen, what's to stop that tiny, puny, extremelly lucky single torpedo to cause something critical and tear apart the Yamato? Sure enough, that would be a one-in-a-million odd, but the opportunity is there.

So that raises an interesting question. If you guys are feeling like it, and were trying to emulate Gunther Prien's feat of lurching into a harbor full of capital ships, what would you do? would you:

a) spray all your six torps all over the victims, say, one or two per ship, or

b) concentrante all of them in the largest target?

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04-14-11, 03:41 PM	#11
Daniel Prates Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Curitiba, Brazil Posts: 938 Downloads: 65 Uploads: 0	There are some historical examples of how a ship can simply blow up with just that one, single lucky hit. Or sometimes not even that. Examples would be the Lusitania (where apparently air-sprayed coal powder in the fuel deposits increased dramaticly the effects of a german WWI torpedo) or the Maine (where pure and simple design flaws accounted for the ship's explosion, credited for many years to a spanish mine laid in the harbor of havana). So if those things can happen, what's to stop that tiny, puny, extremelly lucky single torpedo to cause something critical and tear apart the Yamato? Sure enough, that would be a one-in-a-million odd, but the opportunity is there. So that raises an interesting question. If you guys are feeling like it, and were trying to emulate Gunther Prien's feat of lurching into a harbor full of capital ships, what would you do? would you: a) spray all your six torps all over the victims, say, one or two per ship, or b) concentrante all of them in the largest target?