RUb 1.44 Shell Explosive charge /armour piercing power

Beery · 10-22-05, 11:08 AM

In real life an Elco or a destroyer could cripple and/or kill a U-boat quite effectively. Part of the idea behind RUb is to reward realistic tactics and punish unrealistic ones. In real life your chances of hitting an Elco with the deck gun would be incredibly small. The Elco is extremely manoeuvrable and has a very effective 50 caliber (or similar) gun and torpedoes - both very effective weapons against a U-boat. I've not done any serious studies on U-boats versus torpedo boats, but my gut feeling is that if such an encounter happened in real life I think the U-boat would be lucky to get away with 50% hull integrity. U-boats simply aren't built to take on armed surface vessels in a slug-fest, and U-boat commanders went to great lengths to avoid such encounters - the risk to the U-boat was just too great.

Having said that, the info regarding what files have been altered for every RUb feature is in the Readme file. In this case the file is data\Library\Shells.zon. Just replace it with the stock game version of the file and you'll be all set.

10-22-05, 11:08 AM	#2
Beery Admiral Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Silver Spring, MD, USA (but still a Yorkshireman at heart - tha can allus tell a Yorkshireman...) Posts: 2,497 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	In real life an Elco or a destroyer could cripple and/or kill a U-boat quite effectively. Part of the idea behind RUb is to reward realistic tactics and punish unrealistic ones. In real life your chances of hitting an Elco with the deck gun would be incredibly small. The Elco is extremely manoeuvrable and has a very effective 50 caliber (or similar) gun and torpedoes - both very effective weapons against a U-boat. I've not done any serious studies on U-boats versus torpedo boats, but my gut feeling is that if such an encounter happened in real life I think the U-boat would be lucky to get away with 50% hull integrity. U-boats simply aren't built to take on armed surface vessels in a slug-fest, and U-boat commanders went to great lengths to avoid such encounters - the risk to the U-boat was just too great. Having said that, the info regarding what files have been altered for every RUb feature is in the Readme file. In this case the file is data\Library\Shells.zon. Just replace it with the stock game version of the file and you'll be all set. __________________ "More mysterious. Yeah. I'll just try to think, 'Where the hell's the whiskey?'" - Bob Harris, Lost in Translation. "Anyrooad up, ah'll si thi" - Missen.