Can anyone confirm seeing damaged ship sinking on its own?

Drakhun · 03-08-10, 08:36 AM

I'm experiencing the same problem.

Last time while "farming"

tonnage for British Supply Quest I get my first very own convoy. It was foggy night so I passed escorts and prepared attack in the middle of convoy. There was about 12 ships (tankers and frieghters) I fired at 4 targets: 2 tankers (2 torps each) 1 frieghter (1 torp) and 3rd tanker from stern tube. After beautyful fireworks show none of ships sunk and they sailed away burning but none of then ever slowed down. External-camera showed me that most of torps exploded directly below ships...

And from my experience none of ships I sunk through about 25 hours of playing sunk due to damage, everytime I had to beat the crap out of them to get info "ship sunk" before it started to go below waterline

B_O_L_T · 03-08-10, 09:53 AM

It may or may not have something to do with these hit point bars people play with, playing on realistic I have seen several ships sink over a period of time without any further interaction from me, but just as commonly ships with serious damage continued.

However, this is just as it was irl, ships really did reach home with bows and sterns completely destroyed. Perhaps some folks should go search the net for pictures of damaged ships that survived attacks, reading this thread I know a few folks are in for a surprise. My own grandfather survived two torpedo attacks, one in the Royal Navy and later in the fleet auxilliary sailing freighter decoys.

Just a couple of points,
1: aiming below the hull 2 meters is too deep try 1.

2: The Yamato could never have been sunk with only four torps, they simply could not have damaged enough compartments to cause significant flooding, it was built to withstand 27 degree listing before handling would be compromised. She even had auxiliary steering and engine rooms in the event the primaries were completely flooded. The series of attacks which sank her took over two hours, after the first hour, she had already sustained several bomb hits and four torps which caused nothing more than a 5 degree list that didn't even slow her down. She was finally destroyed by a magazine explosion after fire alarms failed to notify the crew it was on fire, once they realised, it was too late, the main pump for that section had been destroyed and they couldn't get an auxiliary set up there in time.

03-08-10, 08:36 AM	#1
Drakhun Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Poland Posts: 11 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	I'm experiencing the same problem. Last time while "farming" tonnage for British Supply Quest I get my first very own convoy. It was foggy night so I passed escorts and prepared attack in the middle of convoy. There was about 12 ships (tankers and frieghters) I fired at 4 targets: 2 tankers (2 torps each) 1 frieghter (1 torp) and 3rd tanker from stern tube. After beautyful fireworks show none of ships sunk and they sailed away burning but none of then ever slowed down. External-camera showed me that most of torps exploded directly below ships... And from my experience none of ships I sunk through about 25 hours of playing sunk due to damage, everytime I had to beat the crap out of them to get info "ship sunk" before it started to go below waterline __________________ "Live how You want, just don't feed on me if You doubt what I say I will make You believe" ~Scavenger of Human Sorrow, Death

03-08-10, 09:53 AM	#2
B_O_L_T Seaman Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 40 Downloads: 182 Uploads: 0	It may or may not have something to do with these hit point bars people play with, playing on realistic I have seen several ships sink over a period of time without any further interaction from me, but just as commonly ships with serious damage continued. However, this is just as it was irl, ships really did reach home with bows and sterns completely destroyed. Perhaps some folks should go search the net for pictures of damaged ships that survived attacks, reading this thread I know a few folks are in for a surprise. My own grandfather survived two torpedo attacks, one in the Royal Navy and later in the fleet auxilliary sailing freighter decoys. Just a couple of points, 1: aiming below the hull 2 meters is too deep try 1. 2: The Yamato could never have been sunk with only four torps, they simply could not have damaged enough compartments to cause significant flooding, it was built to withstand 27 degree listing before handling would be compromised. She even had auxiliary steering and engine rooms in the event the primaries were completely flooded. The series of attacks which sank her took over two hours, after the first hour, she had already sustained several bomb hits and four torps which caused nothing more than a 5 degree list that didn't even slow her down. She was finally destroyed by a magazine explosion after fire alarms failed to notify the crew it was on fire, once they realised, it was too late, the main pump for that section had been destroyed and they couldn't get an auxiliary set up there in time. Last edited by B_O_L_T; 03-08-10 at 10:20 AM.