Unsinkable Yamato's?

[Renesisfury]

I found a Yamato, mine took 10 fish to sink too, the first 6 just stopped her dead in the water, the stern tubes wrote her off.

[Steeltrap]

You have to remember that they were truly massive ships, with enormous armour levels, vast numbers of compartments and, accordingly, very difficult to sink. They both absorbed something along the lines of 17-20 torps and a similar number of 500 or 1,000lb bombs before sinking, and even then it took something like 2 hours.

The fact that you can stick a single torp into a BB and watch it go off like a firecracker is decidedly unrealistic IMO. Bear in mind that a warship is designed to take damage. They have far more compartments than any vessel of comparable tonnage, and a much larger crew with far more damage control equipment (sprinklers, fire hoses, fixed and movable pumps).

Archerfish sank Shinano (the 3rd Yamato class, redesigned as an aircraft carrier) with 6 torps, but she had not finished fitting out and her crew was poorly trained.

I would expect you to be able to cripple a Yamato with a salvo if you got 6 hits. 10 hits might sink her. The reality is you would damage her so badly she'd be out of the war for a long time, plus absorb a lot of materials and time in repairs, so that's a victory from a strategic perspective anyway.

[u-168]

Trie to get be hind it and hit the props it will blow them off or it should fire about 2 torps and the rest of the fleet should leave it behind so you can do ya dirty work




u-168

[Roadsweeper]

The Yamoto class was, in all regards, a super BS. They were huge with incredible amounts of armour. The US had nothing that could match the Yamoto class, which is why the Montana class was designed (although only the keel of the first of the class was ever laid down, and subsequently cancelled), essentially being a heavier armoured Iowa class with 12 main guns, not 9. Even still, lighter armour than the Yamoto, but a heavier broadside.

My point being, you should not be able to sink a Yamoto class with 3 or 4 fish, its gonna take the majority of your torp complement to sink one of these behmoths, and I mean common, no skipper would have sunk a Yamoto class then carried on and sunk a few more BS's or a couple of crusiers for good measure like you can in SH. They would have thrown everything they had at the Yamoto and legged it.

They were a class of super BS's, they were (and still are) the largest BS ever built in the world, I doubt they had a weak spot that a sub could exploit (the only weak spot I have heard of is its pathetic AA defense).

[tater]

We had nothing in the same size range, but Iowa or even South Dakota would have given her a run for the money, IMO.

Radar gun laying FTW.

tater

[howler93]

Unbelievably, I've YET to so much as SEE a Yamoto. I don't know how many patrols I've sailed in career-mode and never once! Someday,captains...someday...
In the meanwhile, any tips on finding her would be much appreciated. (Running TM and RSRD btw) Once I've got her in my sights, THEN perhaps I can worry about how to send her to the bottom

Enviously,
Howler

[Unthinkable]

I sunk a Yamamoto before and I wan't even using mods, I ran into a battlegroup near Jawa in 1942 there were several crusiers and many destroyers and smack dab in the middle was the yamamoto. I had a full salvo and quickly lined up 6 shots along her bow and she sank 2 hours after. The way I did it was instead of direct hit I switched the torpedos to contact influence and then I set the depth to 7ft below her waterline. Causing the torpedo to explode under her belly so it ignored most of the armor and compartments of that ship. Because in WWII many ships had special armor or attachments to stop torpedo's (nets, HO machine guns, fins) infact if you look in the mueseum every major warship in the japanese navy had fins to prematurly detonate torpedo's. Sinking the Yamamoto can be done you just need the right time, the right angle and hopefully alittle bit of luck.