British Medium Old Tanker

merc4ulfate · 06-30-12, 05:33 PM

I would play with your depth settings.

I too have seen lighter craft use what would seem to be far to many torpedos only to have others sink in one. The most notable difference was my depth settings. Setting way to shallow put the fish to high on the water line. Like spoken of in an earlier reply if it is set with an efficient damage control group they can take care of it quickly.

If the fish are deeper and closer to the keel when struck or using the magnetic detonators actually under the ship then far more damage and flooding is caused.

SilentOtto · 07-05-12, 06:00 PM

I am now reading "Silent Victory" (awesome book!) and Clay Blair states clearly that tankers (japanese in this case but should be mostly the same) were really hard to sink IRL, sometimes being able to take in between 4 and 10 (!) torpedos before sinking.

The main reason was, they are already very well divided in compartments which are isolated, have specialized crew and are overall better built. He wrote that they usually sank/were abandoned from uncontrolled fires, but could be really hard to sink with american torps.

My 0.02 eur!

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06-30-12, 05:33 PM	#1
merc4ulfate DILLIGAF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: florida Posts: 2,058 Downloads: 210 Uploads: 0	I would play with your depth settings. I too have seen lighter craft use what would seem to be far to many torpedos only to have others sink in one. The most notable difference was my depth settings. Setting way to shallow put the fish to high on the water line. Like spoken of in an earlier reply if it is set with an efficient damage control group they can take care of it quickly. If the fish are deeper and closer to the keel when struck or using the magnetic detonators actually under the ship then far more damage and flooding is caused.

07-05-12, 06:00 PM	#2
SilentOtto Engineer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: BF79 Posts: 209 Downloads: 71 Uploads: 0	I am now reading "Silent Victory" (awesome book!) and Clay Blair states clearly that tankers (japanese in this case but should be mostly the same) were really hard to sink IRL, sometimes being able to take in between 4 and 10 (!) torpedos before sinking. The main reason was, they are already very well divided in compartments which are isolated, have specialized crew and are overall better built. He wrote that they usually sank/were abandoned from uncontrolled fires, but could be really hard to sink with american torps. My 0.02 eur!