Decks Awash toot (TEC)

YonMaruIchi · 03-29-15, 01:44 PM

Off topic but I'm sure the Momo's age had something to do with it. Hell those things are even older than Minekaze. Why put dozens of depth charges on such an outdated destroyer? I'm surprised it had any. Particularly since Fubuki was such a huge step forward in destroyer quality being the first modern destroyers in the world and consequent designs being mass produced, I don't think anything before Mutsuki was really intended to see much action at the time. Find out if anything made after 1920 had so few depth charges that hadn't recently attacked another sub. Momo is a terrible example destroyer, probably the worst you can use

According to wiki by WWII that ship was the only ship of its class to actually still be used in WWII and wasn't even classed as a destroyer, but an auxiliary escort, and was barely even ocean-going, just an unnamed coastal patrol boat.

TorpX · 03-29-15, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by YonMaruIchi

Off topic but I'm sure the Momo's age had something to do with it. ...
According to wiki by WWII that ship was the only ship of its class to actually still be used in WWII and wasn't even classed as a destroyer, but an auxiliary escort, and was barely even ocean-going, just an unnamed coastal patrol boat.

The IJN wasn't going to dedicate their latest and greatest DD's to ASW. They would be screening CV's and BB's and looking for trouble in fleet actions. The Momi patrol boats were second-class, and therefore all the more likely to be deployed for the job of chasing after USN subs.

In fact the RN and USN used a lot of second-class vessels for ASW duties, too.

Sniper297 · 03-29-15, 10:54 PM

According to Nicholas Monsarrat (The Cruel Sea) the Royal Navy was so unprepared for U-boats they sent out assorted tug boats and fishing trawlers armed with a few WWI Lewis guns and half a dozen depth charges at the beginning of the war. The IJN was a little better prepared (since they had two years to watch what the U-boats were doing to the Brits) but still equipped small craft and merchants with depth charges at various times.

TorpX · 03-30-15, 01:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Sniper297

According to Nicholas Monsarrat (The Cruel Sea) the Royal Navy was so unprepared for U-boats they sent out assorted tug boats and fishing trawlers armed with a few WWI Lewis guns and half a dozen depth charges at the beginning of the war.

Not only at the beginning. I'm reading Blair's History of the U-boat campaign, and some of those trawlers were 'loaned' to the USN to help stop the carnage on the East coast during '42. Later, when they weren't needed there, they were sent to the South Atlantic, around South Africa, because the defenses there were still weak in '43.

There is never enough new equipment to go around.

Crannogman · 03-30-15, 12:25 PM

Thanks Sniper, I'm enjoying this little tweak, though I may have to bring the depth a little lower in my Gato. FWIW, I'm also getting "radar depth" when I use that command. I'm tempted to reset my periscope depth a meter shallower so I can still hear the radio

Sniper297 · 03-31-15, 07:45 PM

Are you getting "radar depth" with stock 1.5, or with one or more mods? Still can't figure out where that's coming from.

merc4ulfate · 03-31-15, 07:59 PM

I get Radar Depth no matter what the mod configuration. Stock, TMO, TMO+RSRD+ISP I get it no matter what.

03-29-15, 01:44 PM	#1
YonMaruIchi Watch Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 15 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	Off topic but I'm sure the Momo's age had something to do with it. Hell those things are even older than Minekaze. Why put dozens of depth charges on such an outdated destroyer? I'm surprised it had any. Particularly since Fubuki was such a huge step forward in destroyer quality being the first modern destroyers in the world and consequent designs being mass produced, I don't think anything before Mutsuki was really intended to see much action at the time. Find out if anything made after 1920 had so few depth charges that hadn't recently attacked another sub. Momo is a terrible example destroyer, probably the worst you can use According to wiki by WWII that ship was the only ship of its class to actually still be used in WWII and wasn't even classed as a destroyer, but an auxiliary escort, and was barely even ocean-going, just an unnamed coastal patrol boat. Last edited by YonMaruIchi; 03-29-15 at 02:16 PM.

03-30-15, 12:25 PM	#5
Crannogman Watch Officer Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Kansas City, Missouri Posts: 343 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Thanks Sniper, I'm enjoying this little tweak, though I may have to bring the depth a little lower in my Gato. FWIW, I'm also getting "radar depth" when I use that command. I'm tempted to reset my periscope depth a meter shallower so I can still hear the radio __________________ "The sea shall ride over her and she shall live in it like a duck" ~John Ericsson

03-31-15, 07:59 PM	#7
merc4ulfate DILLIGAF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: florida Posts: 2,058 Downloads: 210 Uploads: 0	I get Radar Depth no matter what the mod configuration. Stock, TMO, TMO+RSRD+ISP I get it no matter what. __________________ Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. ~Isaac Asimov~ Mercfulfate 将補日本帝國海軍

03-29-15, 10:54 PM	#3
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	According to Nicholas Monsarrat (The Cruel Sea) the Royal Navy was so unprepared for U-boats they sent out assorted tug boats and fishing trawlers armed with a few WWI Lewis guns and half a dozen depth charges at the beginning of the war. The IJN was a little better prepared (since they had two years to watch what the U-boats were doing to the Brits) but still equipped small craft and merchants with depth charges at various times.

03-31-15, 07:45 PM	#6
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	Are you getting "radar depth" with stock 1.5, or with one or more mods? Still can't figure out where that's coming from.