I sunk my first ship!!!

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by thegrindre

I went toe to toe with a Japanese cruiser. Got rammed three times, took on some real damage, but you should see the other guy. My deck gun took 'em down.

You sank a cruiser with your deck gun? What level are you playing on?

You: One 5" gun.
Him: At the very least four 6" guns.
You: Designed to sink.
Him: Designed not to sink.
You: 1200 tons or so.
Him: 5000 tons minimum.

One ramming by any warship should sink you. In real life even a destroyer would easily turn you into a non-diving gunboat. More likely he would sink you easily. Submarines are not made for gun duels with other warships.

Originally Posted by Harvs

Hi all, I like to fire between 700 and 1000, I find anything under 500 my torps just bounce off the ship, very annoying after getting 3 good hits.

Torpedoes have a minimum arming distance so they won't accidentally explode right after leaving the tube. It's not usually 500 yards, but you should always try to be on the safe side. Sounds like you're doing it right.

[thegrindre]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

You sank a cruiser with your deck gun? What level are you playing on?

You: One 5" gun.
Him: At the very least four 6" guns.
You: Designed to sink.
Him: Designed not to sink.
You: 1200 tons or so.
Him: 5000 tons minimum.

One ramming by any warship should sink you. In real life even a destroyer would easily turn you into a non-diving gunboat. More likely he would sink you easily. Submarines are not made for gun duels with other warships.

Well, realism was set to zero (0). It was my first time at sea aside from sub school.
Gee, I was kinda proud of myself at accomplishing the win.

[Crannogman]

I thought damage was constant across all difficulty levels

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by thegrindre

Well, realism was set to zero (0). It was my first time at sea aside from sub school.
Gee, I was kinda proud of myself at accomplishing the win.

Please forgive me. On the one hand I sometimes forget that everybody starts somewhere. There's nothing wrong with having the realism set for anything you like and playing the way you want. Many years ago there were people who boasted about how many tons they sank, racking up scores that would have made the real kaleuns green with envy. There was even a "Million Tons" club going for awhile.

What to you was pure excitement at a cool part of the game I took as bragging. My mistake, and I apologize.

[Admiral Halsey]

I remember my first first kill quite clear because it was me. Had a torp circle run on me and nail my sub right in the conning tower. As I slipped down into the deep with water flooding everywhere I cursed out my torpedoman who apparently thought that I wanted the darn thing to circle back around and reload in the rear tubes.

[razark]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

You sank a cruiser with your deck gun?

Back when the game first came out, I took on a battleship with my S-boat. He was dead in the water from my torpedoes, so I surfaced right next to him. I guess his guns couldn't elevate low enough to hit me. I managed to knock his bridge off before I ran out of ammo.

I've taken on destroyers with the deck gun in desperation. Even a medium sized merchant with any armament is a bad risk.

[Admiral Halsey]

Originally Posted by razark

Back when the game first came out, I took on a battleship with my S-boat. He was dead in the water from my torpedoes, so I surfaced right next to him. I guess his guns couldn't elevate low enough to hit me. I managed to knock his bridge off before I ran out of ammo.

I've taken on destroyers with the deck gun in desperation. Even a medium sized merchant with any armament is a bad risk.

That's the trick when attacking a ship with anything larger then an AA gun. You have to get in close enough so the gun can't depress and tear your sub to shreds.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Please forgive me. On the one hand I sometimes forget that everybody starts somewhere. There's nothing wrong with having the realism set for anything you like and playing the way you want. Many years ago there were people who boasted about how many tons they sank, racking up scores that would have made the real kaleuns green with envy. There was even a "Million Tons" club going for awhile.

What to you was pure excitement at a cool part of the game I took as bragging. My mistake, and I apologize.

Sometimes context is everything. From one of the more ancient files of Mad Magazine...

[TorpX]

[Warren Peace]

Originally Posted by TorpX

This...so much this. I'm laughing so hard my co-worker poked her head around the corner to make sure I was okay...

Oh god, the tears!

OP: Congrats on the kills, keep it up! However, in the future, those Sanpans (the little fishing boats) are not to be torpedoed or shot at. COMSUBPAC has long-standing orders that any Sanpan sighted should be rammed, this is a punishment for getting a Captain's hopes up with false merchant sightings.