[REQ]Realistic Depth Charges

[Farinhir]

Originally Posted by Vanilla

Now I am confused.
My quote was from Wiki (sorry not giving it straight away, I just forgot to do it when typing): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_charges that in turn references this book:
"Campbell, John, Naval Weapons of World War Two, New York, New York: Naval Institute Press, 1985, ISBN 0-87021-459-4, page 89"

Wiki states - 900ft while the link you gave says: "Settings 300 feet (91 m) max, later units 500 feet (182 m)"

What is correct?

This looks to me as if the person who edited the wiki had a conversion issue. They read 300' as 300 yards (or meters if that is the case) and gave 900' as a conversion. Even so, 91m > 50m, and 182m should be good enough to reach most u-boats of that day. The type VIIA - Type VIIC had crush depths around 200 meters, and the Type VIIC/41 had a crush depth around 250m. So far I have only played the first few missions, but it seems the boat I am on is the VIIA.


Source for crust depths
http://www.uboataces.com/uboat-type-vii.shtml