Getting over a Subnet.

Tonnage_Ace · 04-30-06, 05:11 AM

I thought you could sail over them myself without gaining any damage, but it appears you can't. I use GW and it places subnets and mines around you home port, so being that I didn't want to damage my u-boat, I opted for going over the subnet. I plotted my course and set speed for ahead standard, which was about 16kts. After setting TC for 64x, I approached the subnet and then I got the death screen saying my boat had been destroyed by a collision. But this is wierd because I figured subnets were simply steel nets bing held up by floatation devices(aren't those what those ball thingys are?) so I figured the nets were only harmful to subs passing underwater and not ships or u-boats travelling on the surface. Apparently I was wrong, but weren't subnets simply a deterent and harmful to u-boats travelling underwater in RL?

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04-30-06, 05:11 AM	#2
Tonnage_Ace XO Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Vancouver Posts: 411 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I thought you could sail over them myself without gaining any damage, but it appears you can't. I use GW and it places subnets and mines around you home port, so being that I didn't want to damage my u-boat, I opted for going over the subnet. I plotted my course and set speed for ahead standard, which was about 16kts. After setting TC for 64x, I approached the subnet and then I got the death screen saying my boat had been destroyed by a collision. But this is wierd because I figured subnets were simply steel nets bing held up by floatation devices(aren't those what those ball thingys are?) so I figured the nets were only harmful to subs passing underwater and not ships or u-boats travelling on the surface. Apparently I was wrong, but weren't subnets simply a deterent and harmful to u-boats travelling underwater in RL?