To Hiroshima with a camera. And mines?

Stealhead · 06-16-09, 05:10 PM

This is ture but you have to think of the effect a mision of mine laying vs. a mission of using tropedos to strike. For the crew of a ship they are going to have a higher morale when they have gone to battle stations and destroyed a ship or two they see the direct result of thier work and they know they have harmed the enemy.For a military unit it is posative on morale to know for certain that you have caused harm to the enemy.Aslo mine laying by submarine was very dangerous it was possiable that the sub set off the mine by accident during the laying process.

If you go and lay mines yes you know that some of them may sink something but you are not going to directly witness your work and the mines in WWII had no control so they blew up on anything that came near them enemy or not and mines can also come loose from thier moorings and drift away and end up being a threat to your own submarines.

Mines are very good for defensive aera denial roles in waters your own navy controls adn can therefore maintian the mines. A down side with mines is that the enemy can send mine sweepers into an area they suspect is mined and if they do a good job they will find most of them. A torpedo on the other hand can not be cleared you either avoid one coming at you or you dont.

I belive that OPMONSON has some U-boats with mine laying ability.the idea of going all the way to x point loaded fully or mostly with mines to lay sounds sort dull to me(mostly because there is no true strategic ship lose effect in SH4(in other words after you lay the mines and leave when you complete the mission they wont "be" where you layed them and wont really have any effect) but if you like that idea then I suppose it would be fun. I guess you could lay them infront of an oncoming ship or convoy but in real life they had to be set at a ceratin deapth so if the water was very deep theyd do nothing but sink.

06-16-09, 05:10 PM	#6
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	This is ture but you have to think of the effect a mision of mine laying vs. a mission of using tropedos to strike. For the crew of a ship they are going to have a higher morale when they have gone to battle stations and destroyed a ship or two they see the direct result of thier work and they know they have harmed the enemy.For a military unit it is posative on morale to know for certain that you have caused harm to the enemy.Aslo mine laying by submarine was very dangerous it was possiable that the sub set off the mine by accident during the laying process. If you go and lay mines yes you know that some of them may sink something but you are not going to directly witness your work and the mines in WWII had no control so they blew up on anything that came near them enemy or not and mines can also come loose from thier moorings and drift away and end up being a threat to your own submarines. Mines are very good for defensive aera denial roles in waters your own navy controls adn can therefore maintian the mines. A down side with mines is that the enemy can send mine sweepers into an area they suspect is mined and if they do a good job they will find most of them. A torpedo on the other hand can not be cleared you either avoid one coming at you or you dont. I belive that OPMONSON has some U-boats with mine laying ability.the idea of going all the way to x point loaded fully or mostly with mines to lay sounds sort dull to me(mostly because there is no true strategic ship lose effect in SH4(in other words after you lay the mines and leave when you complete the mission they wont "be" where you layed them and wont really have any effect) but if you like that idea then I suppose it would be fun. I guess you could lay them infront of an oncoming ship or convoy but in real life they had to be set at a ceratin deapth so if the water was very deep theyd do nothing but sink.