Where is HMS Hood ?

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[quote=Wreford-Brown]

Originally Posted by Steeltrap

The Belgrano was sunk by just 2 torpedoes during the Falklands War, and the third one impacted but didn't explode (sounds familiar...).

The Captain decided to use Mk8 torpedoes whose design dates back to 1925 rather than the newer Mk24 homing torpedoes as he was unsure of their reliability.

The ARA Gral. Belgrano was a Brooklyn Class (Light Cruiser) (Ex USS Phoenix CL-46), a "goliath" BB as HMS Hood must be much much more strong...

Really, it was sunk by a only one shot, because the second torp blasted the ship's bow with no danger for the ship survavability. The torp at midship was the cause of the sink...

Originally Posted by Kielhauler1961

Belgrano was just a poor, worn-out 44 year old light cruiser of the Brooklyn class, built before the 2nd World War. With her motley crew of conscripts who probably didn't have a clue about damage control she was easy meat. Over half of all Argentine war dead in that conflict went down with her. She never stood a chance.

Thats correct, plus...

The "Captain" of the ARA Gral. Belgrano was sailing with the "waterproof' compartements opened and not sealed.
May be he was into a "vacations travel", may he was not in know there was a battle near around...

Any way...a 270kg explosives ( x2 ) into a light cruiser must be too much.


I rised up all my BB hitpoints up to 1200HP, with my torp settings i need almost 4 300Kg torps to kill a BB inmediatelly, 3 of them can stop the ships after half hour, with two, they scape withy no problems.

With 200kg torps, i need more torps.

Ocasionally, a copule of torps can kill the ship, but it is due to the "critical" probability at zones.cfg files, but no happens too often.

I am thinking to rise up Hitpoints up to 1600HP.



What must be the correct number of torps to kill a big BB ?