IJN Semi-Submersible Tanker

[ElAurens]

On my most recent patrol/career out of Perth aboard USS Grampus I came across a convoy West of the Celebes. Sank two medium freighters with no trouble, put one torp into a Large Modern Tanker and stopped her engine. I waited for the convoy to move on then surfaced and finished her with the deck gun. I then I put seven fish into this Large Modern Tanker. It matched every speed and course change of her convoy with no difficulty. Not believeing what I was seeing I decided to shadow her to see how long she would stay afloat. She sailed on in this condition for over 7 hours. I created a save at that point and decided to see just how silly things were here. I put my final torp into the nearest destroyer, finishing her. I surfaced and opened up with the deck gun. Sunk the remaining two destroyers, finished off the tanker, and sunk the remaining 4 or 5 (can't remember now) merchants.

So much for "realism".



It was gratifying in an FPS kind of way, but not really what I would have expected from a "simulation".

[LZ_Baker]

Yea, I've blown the props and rudders off a few boats and seen them keep right up with everyone else

[Blood_splat]

Yup

[Faamecanic]

Originally Posted by LZ_Baker

Yea, I've blown the props and rudders off a few boats and seen them keep right up with everyone else

Same here.... had the unsinkable tanker..10 torps. Never went down.

I have also blown of the props and rudders from ships and they might slow down by 2 kts....

I think the damage model needs some serious work.

[Gigalocus]

But remember, they're tankers, filled with oil, and what floats on water? oil, (i feel like im in the scene in monty pythons holy grail:p ) but then, it could all catch aflame and burn the ship down, but, if the fire was under controll (yet not put out) it could easily carry on

[stinger503]

It's possible. Example: USS Aaron Ward

[ElAurens]

Did the Aaron Ward take 7 torps?

[Seadogs]

Originally Posted by stinger503

It's possible. Example: USS Aaron Ward

Thats just horrific. Where was that picture taken?

[TheSatyr]

I believe the large British tanker "Ohio" took something like 10 torp hits and a few bomb hits when she did the run to Malta...her survival saved the island at the time. That she survived at all was a testament to her crew and her builders.

Her arrival at Malta was considered "a bloody miracle', by the British Military there.

[stinger503]

Here's a picture of the S.S. Ohio- http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...5/The_ohio.jpg

And as for the Aaron Ward it received no torpedoes. Many kamikazes however. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Aaron_Ward_%28DM-34%29 is her story but I'll just put the final paragraph in.

She still had one ordeal, however, to suffer. Just after 1920, a final bomb-laden tormentor made a high-speed, low-level approach and crashed into the base of her number 2 stack. The explosion blew the plane, the stack, searchlight, and two gun mounts into the air, and they all came to rest strewn across the deck aft of stack number 1. Through the night, her crew fought to save the ship. At 2106, USS Shannon arrived and took Aaron Ward in tow. Early on the morning of May 4, she arrived at Kerama Retto where she began temporary repairs. She remained there until June 11 when she got underway for the US.

[Rose]

Just after 1920

Are you sure...?

[alexoscar]

Originally Posted by stinger503

It's possible. Example: USS Aaron Ward

Shallow waters, like Pearl Harbour or Taranto harbour. In deep sea, she would have gone to hell.

Regards

[joea]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

So much for "realism".



It was gratifying in an FPS kind of way, but not really what I would have expected from a "simulation".

So much for your reading comprehension ...will you even read the rest of this thread? Did you even acknowledge the answers for your other whine thread about being retired after 3 missions in the Gato (some skippers were retired after 3 missions and you didn't say in fact how many missions you had before getting the Gato)?

I've "known" you for a long time on the UBI Il-2 forum and expect better from you. Bugs there are, which will be fixed (read the review thread above), all this other stuff can and will be fixed tweaked by modders.