[REL] Longer sinking times for TMO 2.5

[Hylander_1314]

Originally Posted by utops

a) DD's are tough, too tough i mean one eel should at least disable her,but this is rare to observe,most of times she still want to get my puny sub between DC even if she got struck near DC platforms.
b) Stationary Yamato is virtually impossible to sink:
I found her on Truk anchorage and struck her 19 times without dud's.

The DDs harassing you after getting hit once, should either sink, or turn tail, and leave if damaged. The ones that are tough though, are the Akizuki and Fubuki DDs. For some reason, maybe because they are bigger boats, take more torpedoes to destroy. The other DDs usually sink, or leave the area listing badly.

As for the Yamato, yes 19 torpedoes should have sunk her. Being in Truk though, you need to know how much water there is between the hull and the bottom.

What I found works great if they are in shallower waters, is concentrate on the area right even with the back of B turret on the forward section, and just forward of the aft main turret, and the area just ahead of there where the boilers and engine rooms would be. But as a note, here is what the Yamato took before she actually did sink:

"After a dozen torpedo hits, even the Yamato 's 1,000 watertight compartments couldn't save her, and her lower decks rapidly began to flood. A Curtiss Helldiver bomber like the one seen at right photographed the destruction. At this point, after just a few hours of battle, most of the American pilots returned to their carriers, knowing Yamato 's injuries were fatal. In all, Yamato took 12 bomb and seven torpedo hits within two hours of battle."

Source:

Yamato The Ultimate Battleship
http://battleshipyamato.info/

Cool little history of the boat.