Patrol with 220000 tons of sinked ships! :D

[Quillan]

Originally Posted by vindex

* When you hit a ship in harbor in SH3, it "woke up" and started moving and/or hunting for you. So did the other ships in harbor. In SH4 the entire fleet just sits there like target practice. Even the subhunters in port don't react -- so what are they there for?? Maybe the reaction wouldn't be instanteous -- give them 5 min to scramble out of their beds -- but you'd think after a capital ship blows up in your harbor there'd be some major reaction.

First off, congrats to the original poster. Nice total.

Secondly, if I'm not mistaken, most ships of this time period used steam for propulsion, either generated by a coal or oil fired burner. If a ship is at the dock, the burners are off and the boilers are coal. I don't think they can just activate and start hunting for you. It takes time to start the fires, heat the water, and start turning screws. This is even assuming the entire crew is aboard, and not off prowling the dockside bars. Trust me, the shore batteries do wake up when you hit a ship in port. I don't recommend surfacing and using the deck gun on them.