Guilty pleasure...torpedoing small craft :)

I used to delight in sinking sampans (junks) in SHI, but only with the deck gun. At 20-50 tons and made of wood they were hard targets with a torpedo. I rammed one once, for fun, and met with a hardcoded no-ramming feature: he was unharmed, my 1200-ton submarine sank like a stone.

[kiwi_2005]

A bit of a waste of a torpedo but to see those boats go flying in the air, i can understand why you would. Ive only sunk a few with the deck gun

[CCIP]

[Ducimus]

I will not hesitate in the slightest to use a torpedo on an armed trawler......





.......If he's the bastard thats in between me, and a target rich harbor

[gabeeg]

Hey, if its got guns I agree completely. I am not going to duke it out with my deck gun with any vessel having larger than a 20mm armament...unless I have to...if it is armed it gets a torpedo.

[Subnuts]

Originally Posted by CCIP

You know, I wonder if there ever was a point in the war when people stopped believing this stuff.

No wonder the Germans lost the war. They wasted all their 25,000 RM torpedoes on lifeboats! :rotfl:

[VoodooPriest]

Originally Posted by Subnuts

You know, I wonder if there ever was a point in the war when people stopped believing this stuff.

But people want to believe this stuff. The british have always been quite creative with running down their opponents (especialy the germans). And they still are. Back then it was the war propaganda, today it's the tabloids.
But hey, we can cope with that, so no hard feelings

[HunterICX]

unarmed Merchants and trawlers are my Toys to play with when I need some Target practice with the deck gun

If you want to "starve" Britain, then there's nothing better then sinking a trawler. You know how many tons of fish Billingsgate Market gets every day? Sinking a trawler full of food or a cargo ship full of plastic cups? :hmm:

[iambecomelife]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I used to delight in sinking sampans (junks) in SHI, but only with the deck gun. At 20-50 tons and made of wood they were hard targets with a torpedo. I rammed one once, for fun, and met with a hardcoded no-ramming feature: he was unharmed, my 1200-ton submarine sank like a stone.

That just happened to be one of "Mush" Morton's hobbies - once the "Wahoo" even took out a fishing boat with molotov cocktails b/c the AA guns jammed.

I have never used a torpedo on small craft. For the most part I usually leave them alone, since it doesn't seem to be worth the trouble. If I'm bored or haven't sunk anything for the duration of the patrol, then I might go after them (deck gun, AA guns, and ramming only).

[Enigma]

those little bastards will call you in if they see you....Ill remain on course unless im spotted. Then, I just ram the sucker at flank. That usually sinks em, and rarely damages my boat....

[andy_311]

I have only sunk 1 of them in five careers,normally I don't even bother with them and I only took that one out because I was on the surface in Southend harbour.

[AG124]

Originally Posted by Iambecomelife

That just happened to be one of "Mush" Morton's hobbies - once the "Wahoo" even took out a fishing boat with molotov cocktails b/c the AA guns jammed.

Morton also gunned down over 1,000 Japanese survivors of a transport once (on the same patrol, I think). "Military necessity." :hmm:

Anyway, this coastal craft idea seems like a lot of fun - maybe I will try it some time. I did torpedo a Tugboat once, but unlike the other coastal crafts, it was nearly the size of the Coastal Merchant so the effect wasn't as cool.

BTW - Iambecomelife, did you know that UBOAT234 made the other single-skinned ships in the game multi-skin capable? Are you going to try to make some new skins for the Tugboat? I don't wna to get too off-topic though, as this belongs in the SHIII Modding thread.

Originally Posted by AG124

Morton also gunned down over 1,000 Japanese survivors of a transport once (on the same patrol, I think). "Military necessity." :hmm:

Anyway, this coastal craft idea seems like a lot of fun - maybe I will try it some time. I did torpedo a Tugboat once, but unlike the other coastal crafts, it was nearly the size of the Coastal Merchant so the effect wasn't as cool.

BTW - Iambecomelife, did you know that UBOAT234 made the other single-skinned ships in the game multi-skin capable? Are you going to try to make some new skins for the Tugboat? I don't wna to get too off-topic though, as this belongs in the SHIII Modding thread.

What were 1,000 people doing on a transport ship? Unless the transport was carrying people.... Oh, I see. A cruise liner. Unless it was one of the transports ferrying Japanese soldiers.... Oh, I see, an army transport ship. Fair game then...