Realism question, safe distance to target and torpedo detonation

seafarer · 01-24-08, 12:40 PM

Has happened to me too, in both SHIV and SHIII.

The first few days I had SHIV, I surfaced after torpedoing a large merchant in order to finish it off with the deck gun. Once I got the word she was done for, I continued to close, to watch the sinking up close. A series of explosions began to rip through her as we got very close (coming up on her port side from astern) - I ended up with leaks bursting out all over, and my deck gun crew killed (they were on deck watching the show after securing the gun)

01-24-08, 12:40 PM	#4
seafarer Commodore Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 622 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Has happened to me too, in both SHIV and SHIII. The first few days I had SHIV, I surfaced after torpedoing a large merchant in order to finish it off with the deck gun. Once I got the word she was done for, I continued to close, to watch the sinking up close. A series of explosions began to rip through her as we got very close (coming up on her port side from astern) - I ended up with leaks bursting out all over, and my deck gun crew killed (they were on deck watching the show after securing the gun) __________________ My Father's ship, HMCS Waskesiu (K330), sank U257 on 02/24/1944 running SHIII-1.4 with GWX2.1 and SHIV-1.5 with TMO/RSRDC/PE3.3 under MS Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP1 ACER AMD Athlon 64x2 4800+, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 400GB SATA HD Antec TruePower Trio 650watt PSU BFG GeForce 8800GT/OC 512MB VRAM, Samsung 216BW widescreen (1680x1050) LCD