Question about torpedoes.

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Originally Posted by Majestik 909

In general, freighters will withstand much less damage than a multi-compartment warship. However, a review of actual u-boat war diaries mentions many accounts where a freighter was still afloat after multiple torpedo hits and the u-boat abandoned the attack.

I did some digging on this subject to satisfy my own curiosity a while back. I don't have hard numbers. Basically, I just spent several hours looking into ships that got torpedoed, how many hits they took, etc. Both in the atlantic and the pacific. I have seen accounts of ships that took really stupendous amounts of damage without sinking. A few of the vessels I saw even took massive amounts of damage in multiple separate instances and survived.

That being said, as far as merchant targets are concerned, the opposite tended to be true. From what I saw, most merchant vessels where generally doomed if they took even a single torpedo hit.



In SH4, I find two torpedoes to be enough to get the job done most of the time. Assuming they both hit and don't malfunction.