New player thoughts - Page 2

Nangleator · 02-08-11, 12:08 PM

Oh, yes. Not surprised I didn't sink the battleship. I don't know what I was thinking, distributing my torps to three different ships.

It's the Large Modern Tankers I'm surprised by. Seven torpedoes to sink?

razark · 02-08-11, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Nangleator

It's the Large Modern Tankers I'm surprised by. Seven torpedoes to sink?

It's a tanker. It's a ship designed to be full of liquid. You put holes in it, and it gets filled with liquid.

Nangleator · 02-08-11, 04:01 PM

Heh. Good point. But it's ostensibly filled with a flammable liquid, and I'm hitting it with explodey things!

Hit number 6 awarded me with a large orange explosion cloud, and then a secondary explosion, with a big chunk of metal spinning off into the sea, in flames. And still the ship floated.

Ducimus · 02-08-11, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by raymond6751

You should try to get the patch for free from UBI. There should be no charge to patch your game.

Patch's up to version 1.4 are free. Patch 1.5 came intergrated with the Uboat Mission Add on. So there's no way to separate them.

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Originally Posted by Nangleator

Oh, yes. Not surprised I didn't sink the battleship.?

Expect to use upwards of 12 fish to sink the yamato.

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Heh. Good point. But it's ostensibly filled with a flammable liquid, and I'm hitting it with explodey things!

Most, if not all, tankers in stock are empty of cargo. So there's nothing to ignite. They may as well be filled with ping pong balls.

Subnuts · 02-08-11, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Nangleator

Hit number 6 awarded me with a large orange explosion cloud, and then a secondary explosion, with a big chunk of metal spinning off into the sea, in flames. And still the ship floated.

Even tankers filled with explodey stuff can be incredibly difficult to sink:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Ohio#Ohio_and_Pedestal

Nangleator · 02-08-11, 04:21 PM

Geez, they ought to make a movie out of that.

Nice cat, by the way.

WernherVonTrapp · 02-08-11, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

They may as well be filled with ping pong balls.

Saki pong!

TorpX · 02-09-11, 02:06 PM

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"The last test was carried out in 1939 on a full scale mockup of Yamato which was attacked by 400 kg charges. The holding bulkhead did not remain watertight but was not split open."

"Yamato's hull was divided into 1147 watertight compartments (WTC) which comprised 1065 below the armour deck (middle deck) and and 82 above."

Gawd.............................................. ........

It seems futile to attack it.

02-08-11, 12:08 PM	#16
Nangleator Mate Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Billerica Posts: 58 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Oh, yes. Not surprised I didn't sink the battleship. I don't know what I was thinking, distributing my torps to three different ships. It's the Large Modern Tankers I'm surprised by. Seven torpedoes to sink?

02-08-11, 04:01 PM	#18
Nangleator Mate Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Billerica Posts: 58 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Heh. Good point. But it's ostensibly filled with a flammable liquid, and I'm hitting it with explodey things! Hit number 6 awarded me with a large orange explosion cloud, and then a secondary explosion, with a big chunk of metal spinning off into the sea, in flames. And still the ship floated.

02-08-11, 04:21 PM	#21
Nangleator Mate Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Billerica Posts: 58 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Geez, they ought to make a movie out of that. Nice cat, by the way.