Modding help - Page 2

jahwillprovide · 09-13-19, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by KaleunMarco

i am smiling....and holding my rapier-like-wit in check....but ITYS.

Mk48's are wire-guided as well as acoustically sensitive and there is no way one can emulate that in SH4.

from my experience experimenting with US Mk27 and the German T5, 32 knots is just about as fast as you want that baby to run. if you set it faster, it runs past its target AND the built-in-sensitivity gets lost. if you run it slower, you run the risk of it being outrun by your target, especially the small boys.
have fun. good luck. don't let the big, bad destroyer run you down.

Im gonna try out 30 knots since I finally have some time off from work and see how that goes. Maybe it could fix my turning radius issue with the T5. I haven't really had any issues with the torps hitting a target so far, just wish that I could fire from a lower depth haha. It's a blast finding a convoy (no pun intended) and letting a few of these rip out across the sea towards them. Time to go kill some Americans

Sniper297 · 09-13-19, 10:06 PM

I'm using 60 knots right now, added a magnetic exploder and reduced the default depth to 2 meters. Watching the behavior, I fire 30 seconds apart (one nautical mile is about 2000 yards, so 30 seconds = 1000 yards) preferably at wide angles. Both fish pass close to an escort and get distracted, the first one overshoots and turns to run around the destroyer, the second makes the turn and hits, destroyer blows up (increased the bang). Second fish loses the target, sometimes returning to original course, sometimes motoring off in whatever direction it was going when it lost contact. Dunno if slowing them down would cure that, I suspect it's not designed to remember the original course it was on.

"Mk48's are wire-guided as well as acoustically sensitive and there is no way one can emulate that in SH4."

I had more in mind the 48's baby brother, the Mark 46;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_46_torpedo

Those had both active and passive sonar but no wire guidance - air dropped from a helicopter they were on their own once launched. 500 LBS total weight with a 100 LB warhead the real thing wouldn't have done much damage to a surface ship, in fact when I got my discharge (1982) the Soviets were working on triple hull subs specifically designed to survive multiple hits from small air launched torpedoes.

This is, however, a game, when all else fails, cheat.

MrMojok69 · 09-14-19, 04:39 AM

This thread reminds me of "The Final Countdown"

Nimitz thrown back into time, to 12/6/1941. They realize the Japanese carriers are nearby, they realize what year it is, and think "well, we ARE a United States fighting ship, isn't it our duty to attack? Better launch an alpha strike"

09-13-19, 10:06 PM	#17
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	I'm using 60 knots right now, added a magnetic exploder and reduced the default depth to 2 meters. Watching the behavior, I fire 30 seconds apart (one nautical mile is about 2000 yards, so 30 seconds = 1000 yards) preferably at wide angles. Both fish pass close to an escort and get distracted, the first one overshoots and turns to run around the destroyer, the second makes the turn and hits, destroyer blows up (increased the bang). Second fish loses the target, sometimes returning to original course, sometimes motoring off in whatever direction it was going when it lost contact. Dunno if slowing them down would cure that, I suspect it's not designed to remember the original course it was on. "Mk48's are wire-guided as well as acoustically sensitive and there is no way one can emulate that in SH4." I had more in mind the 48's baby brother, the Mark 46; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_46_torpedo Those had both active and passive sonar but no wire guidance - air dropped from a helicopter they were on their own once launched. 500 LBS total weight with a 100 LB warhead the real thing wouldn't have done much damage to a surface ship, in fact when I got my discharge (1982) the Soviets were working on triple hull subs specifically designed to survive multiple hits from small air launched torpedoes. This is, however, a game, when all else fails, cheat.

09-14-19, 04:39 AM	#18
MrMojok69 Loader Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 81 Downloads: 78 Uploads: 0	This thread reminds me of "The Final Countdown" Nimitz thrown back into time, to 12/6/1941. They realize the Japanese carriers are nearby, they realize what year it is, and think "well, we ARE a United States fighting ship, isn't it our duty to attack? Better launch an alpha strike"