HMS Hood....too vulnerable? - Page 2

TriskettheKid · 12-19-07, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by danlisa

@ All

Every ship in GWX still has a critical hit point. It's a very small and hard to find area but it's still there. So a 1 torp kill is still possible but very unlikely, which is the way Von made it.

Oh, I'm well aware of that.

I think I've sunken pretty much every ship in GWX with a single torp a majority of the time, at least in the earlier releases. I remember the Iowa-class BBs giving me some trouble, but for the most part ships went down with a single shot.

When I snuck in to Loch Ewe once, I found two carriers, four BBs, some cruisers, etc. The cruisers went down with a single shot to the ammo bunker area, but those damned carriers ate all my torps. I got them to sink but only to the point that they got stuck in the mud at the bottom.

What was interesting, and what I'm going to test in GWX2 later, is that pretty much all ships, ALL ships, can be sunk with a single torp while under way in the earlier versions of GWX. A single shot to the stern as close to the props as can be placed will pretty much sink anything that's out at sea.

That ASW sure does make raiding harbors fun, though.

Sailor Steve · 12-19-07, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by NealT

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Originally Posted by Cohaagen

Do you think a real-life captain, having received three hits to the bow, would continue to order maximum revolutions so as to make the torpedo holes bigger and force even more water into the ship, as they do in SH3?

The Captain of the Titanic did...

Actually, Captain Smith brought Titanic to a full stop.

Shinano, on the other hand, likely sank for that very reason: going to full speed to escape the area after being torpedoed.

gimpy117 · 12-19-07, 10:25 PM

well...not to be insentive to thesailors that died, but it's the hms hood...it went boom...

Palidian · 12-19-07, 11:00 PM

Actually that would depend on the ship. Bismark took quite a pounding, and the Yamato took at least 5 1000lb bombs and 10 18" torp hits.

More modern torp protection is quite effecive, however the Hood did not benifit from that. Nor do the ships you mention.

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Originally Posted by Pablo

Hi!

Three torpedoes (or fewer) could be quite enough to sink a battleship or battle cruiser. From real life:

HMS Royal Oak: sunk by 3 torpedoes from U-47 (Prien)
HMS Barham: sunk by 3 torpedoes from U-331 (von Tiesenhausen)
HMS Repulse: 4-5 torpedoes from Japanese bombers.
HMS Queen Elizabeth: sunk by a magnetic mine emplaced by frogmen
HMS Valiant: sunk by a magnetic mine emplaced by frogmen
Conti de Cavour: sunk by one torpedo from a Swordfish torpedo bomber

Pablo

trongey · 12-20-07, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by TriskettheKid

...A single shot to the stern as close to the props as can be placed will pretty much sink anything that's out at sea...

I don't know about that. I spotted a tanker the other night, got into good position, and fired two eels from 600yd. The first one hit about 2/3 of the way back, starting a small fire. For fun I hopped into free view and watched #2 literally hit the port screw. Thought it was pretty cool that the screw actually disappeared - didn't think it was too cool that the ship just kept going. The tanker was slowed down a lot, but not sinking, so I crossed his bow and took a stern shot. Must have miscalculated the new speed, becuase I blew off the starboard screw! Two stern hits, one mid-hull hit, and the blasted thing was just sitting there.
Weather was too rough for guns so I had to sit there and watch that tanker bob around until I got my last fish from external storage into stern reserve then load it. I put that one under mid-keel with magnetic trigger and finally sank the stupid thing.
Sadly, in all that time I never noticed that ship was flying stars and stripes. It was May, 1941.

TriskettheKid · 12-20-07, 04:28 PM

Well, I have NO idea if it works in GWX2. I have yet to get in a position to test it out.

However, in the earlier releases of GWX, it was quite possible. I forget if it worked better with impact or magnetic detonators, but it worked. The only problem is that the ship is sunk via flooding, so you have to wait a long time for it to sink.

I've also noticed (again, I haven't tested this in GWX2, yet) that in the earlier relases, the same was true with the bow of the ship. A single shot to the bow of most ships would also doom them, with only the largest of ships possibly needing another torpedo.

12-19-07, 10:25 PM	#18
gimpy117 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Kalamazoo, MI Posts: 3,243 Downloads: 108 Uploads: 0	well...not to be insentive to thesailors that died, but it's the hms hood...it went boom...

12-20-07, 04:28 PM	#21
TriskettheKid Planesman Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 186 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Well, I have NO idea if it works in GWX2. I have yet to get in a position to test it out. However, in the earlier releases of GWX, it was quite possible. I forget if it worked better with impact or magnetic detonators, but it worked. The only problem is that the ship is sunk via flooding, so you have to wait a long time for it to sink. I've also noticed (again, I haven't tested this in GWX2, yet) that in the earlier relases, the same was true with the bow of the ship. A single shot to the bow of most ships would also doom them, with only the largest of ships possibly needing another torpedo.