Collision between Carrier and Destroyer?

[will1987]

I assume it is possible in SH4? I was in the Battle of Midway and fired off a torpedo @ a carrier. I didn't follow the torpedo all the way to it's target in order to maneuver away from other IJN vessels and the message said "Torpedo Impact." I look over and the destroyer is listing badly, but dangerously close to the carrier. I have no idea whether the destroyer and carrier collided or whether I scored a hit on the carrier. Anyways, I know I sank a destroyer and might have finished off a Kongo Battleship, but still confused about whether enemy ships can collide in the course of battle.

[Arclight]

They can, but it's rare. Seems more likely in poor visibility;
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Welcome aboard.

its very common in the single missions when dealing with large task forces but i havent seen it in campaigns but i would imagine it could happen if the ships were close enough together. with merchant convoys you dont see it because they dont have enough speed to run anything over, it just moves out of the way before they hit.

the fast warships scramble (often in different directions) when alerted and often you see a destroyer get pushed around and occassionally sink from it. the midway mission is one that you can get it to happen in quite often but not every time. the key is if you knock off most of the capital ships so the main body of the task force is destroyed, say two of the carriers and a battleship, then the destroyers and cruisers will circle you like flies on a turd and two or three destroyers will almost certainly get run into and pushed around but in order to sink they need to get pushed under and flood so unless its a carrier or battleship doing it they usually pop up after getting pushed around untill it slides out of the way.

ship to ship collisions in the game dont damage either ship as far as i can tell but the ship that is being pushed will take on water to some degree so after seperating they sit low in the bow untill they pump the water out, then they are good as new.

[Seminole]

I have never seen any collisions but I did see a destroyer blow his own stern off once with depth charges.

Which would suit me fine if that happened more often...

Many strange things happen in the sim..so I wouldn't rule out collisions just because I had not witnessed one personally.

[McBeck]

I have seen instances where they have started to shoot on each other

[f1afreak]

i have had the pleasure of watching an escorting destroyer run down and plow over a lifeboat full of survivors at high speed, crushing the lifeboat and the survivors, the amazing thing was, it did not have to happen, the destroyer just went ape sh*t and started mowing over the lifeboats