sinking the yamato

[Gibus]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

Hmm, I would say to fire 3 torpedoes, wait 5 minutes (game time) fire another 3, wait 5 minutes, then fire your last one, wait five minutes, then go away.

Personally, I've already sunk Yamato 19 times during my careers and four other times in multiplayers games, but never docked. Without boasting, I would say that I am very familiar with Miss YAMATO. She is my friend.
I have not yet found THE weak point, but I noticed several things:
1. It runs almost 100% if you pull together all 10 torpedoes.
2. If you shoot torpedoes by packs of 3 or 4, just to slow down, you're wasting your time because it has the ability to repair the damage, that's for sure.
3. I rule my torpedoes at depths ranging from 5 to 10 meters.
4. I sank once with 6 torpedoes, but they were Mk-16. Otherwise, it takes a minimum of 10.
Gibus

[Armistead]

Well, with the Yamato, often your first attack will be to slow it down, which often requires another end around to finish it off. However, if you can get all your bow tubes in it, turn in time to get your sterns in it, you can sink it or stop it on the water with one attack.

In some cases you'll run into TF that have two Y's, so I'll want to sink both and try to shoot 6 into one, 4 into the other, slow them both down and do as many end arounds as needed to finish them off.

Yes, they can repair to a certain degree like your sub, but it takes time and like you they can't repair bulkhead damage at sea. However, if they get fires out, water pumped and engines fixed, you'll have to chase for longer periods, which gives them more time to repair.

Sweet spots on the Y, turrents and engines. If you can do a lot of engine damage, least you can slow it down. I have shot at it's rear before with a few torps into the props and stopped it on the water... Once I put several in the bow alone, it went down enough forward that the props came out of the water. The props were still spinning fast, but it couldn't go anywhere.

[merc4ulfate]

I have found the Yamoto north of Truk in a task force and coming out of the Bungo. North of Truk I did not know it was her till she went down as I was using radar only bearings to hit her in a Typhoon and never had a visual. Out of Bungo I have found her many times and I have never been able to sink her with less than six fish. Always best to use the Mark 16 fish on her I have found.

[ilya]

same