Tactics: sinking a destroyer

[flag4]

DESTROYERS

...stay well away. run when you can - and you'll (probably) need more than 200 yards for the torp to charge itself before detonation is possible.

i have tried the run-in attack on destroyers and have scored against them with the torpedo trick - but, it only works for so long. while you are playing cat and mouse with one (and wasting battery life too) its friends are on their way: now you are lucky or dead

take care

[Sailor Steve]

Very good tactic in a game. In real life that would get you killed sooner than later. I play Dead Is Dead, and I don't fool around with destroyers. Besides, they're worth so little tonnage I wouldn't bother with them anyway.

[Jimbuna]

Not very realistic but getting to within 200 yards of your pray would mean that your torpedo wouldn't be armed...ingame they need 300 yards.

[Fish In The Water]

Whatever floats your boat...

It's a game so it's allowed to be fun. Realism is all well and good, but it's nice to try something different every now and then.

[FIREWALL]

You do know how to use the Save feature in SH3 ?


Also a SH3\GWX Motto " He who learns when it's Smart to Run Away, Lives to Fight another Day "

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

" He who learns when it's Smart to Run Away, Lives to Fight another Day "

Rgr that

[theroc44]

i tired exact same thing, blasted half my battery life and wouldnt ya know it after i smoked'em 3 more destroyers came running at me at 36 knts pinging away in 40 meter water. I was literally held together with duck tape when i got back, roughly 64 percent hull Integ. Lost 14 crew all because i got angry bout' 1 dest. After that i dont even mess withem. I line up on a convoy hit the biggest two and dive and wait. Works everytime. The diving part at least. Hitting the ships thats another story. I got 70% hit on a good day, later in the war i cant even get close without getting hedged in the face and deps slapping me every 5 meters of depth. In real life circa 1944 it musta been miserable.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Fish In The Water

Whatever floats your boat...

It's a game so it's allowed to be fun. Realism is all well and good, but it's nice to try something different every now and then.

Very true, and I wouldn't want anyone to get the impression that I'm telling them how to play. On the other hand I always wonder what mods they're using or not using and what level they play at. There's nothing wrong with playing the way you want, but when somebody gives advice about attacking destroyers I have to wonder. The way I play those tactics are suicide.