Oh Boy - This One Is Above My Pay Grade

[Anthony W.]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Another reason good tracking is very useful is that often task forces and even convoys will change course and if you went in really quickly you may end up in what you think is the ideal position only to have the whole thing change course like going from heading S to heading E if you track well and get into a good spot you will see the change in course in time to react to it effectively.

The best benefit of good tracking/plotting to me is observing the escorts once you figure out their pattern on the radar scopes and your plotting method(varies greatly how this is done map contact on/of etc.) you can set yourself to be in the best spot when the escorts are least likely to find you.

I couldn't reload my torpedo tubes fast enough to get a shot off before I was in range, nor could I make 15 knots submerged to close to range... I didn't have any Mk. 14's left, and I stayed at radar depth long enough to make sure I could come up to close without all the DD's from the task force now 30 miles away coming after me. I did what I had to do.

[commandosolo2009]

retire, and plot their resumption course. then a few hours later, if they are below 21 knots, you may catch up.

[Armistead]

With TMO the Yamato will blast you with all guns as will all the large warships.

[WernherVonTrapp]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

Accounts of the battle of Leyte Gulf suggest that possibly a few of Yamato's 18 inch shells punched through some of the American destroyers without exploding. The fuze delays on Japanese shells were literally ten times longer than in most foreign fuzes. That greatly increases the chances for through-and-throughs if you don't hit something solid. Still having a 14, 16 or 18 inch diameter object weighing 1800 to 3400 pounds, plow thru your ship even with out detonating, could mess you up badly. However, being able to train massive 18 inch batteries on a target as small as a submarine would be exceedingly difficult. That what quick-firing secondary batteries were designed for.

I don't remember all the small details offhand but, the Yamato along with the other BBs and CAs may have been using armor piercing shells. During the course of the battle with Taffy-3, whose DDs and DEs were laying smoke screens and causing confusion by their aggressive attack, Kurita kept mistaking the ships in Taffy-3 for their larger counterparts (CVEs for CVs, DDs for CAs and DEs for DDs). Even their armor piercing HE rounds would've gone through both sides of a DE before detonating.

[Daniel Prates]

Originally Posted by Armistead

With TMO the Yamato will blast you with all guns as will all the large warships.

Funny, I see the turrets turning towards me, but not shooting. Only secondary guns do shoot.