immersion killing collisions

louist · 08-02-07, 11:13 AM

Playing 1.3 and TM, realistic settings and encountered a convoy with a single DD escort. I did an end run after shadowing and waiting for night and approached the convoy, I thought, reasonably stealthily. Minimum periscope use.

As you may know, in Trigger Maru, the destroyers are very sensitive, and though this one was a few miles away, as I got within 2000 of the cargo ships, he started charging.

Cover blown, I decided to surface, get as close as I could and let the merchies have it.

You know the rest. I took a little too long firing the torps and when I began to turn and crash dive, the rear of the sub and the destroyer collided somewhat. I had bulkhead and engine damage, and a bit of flooding. I caught my dive and was able to hover at 90 feet. I would have been moving, but the DD had disappeared. I figured he was sitting silent on the surface listening for me. When the bulkhead was repaired and the flooding stopped, periscope revealed no DD. Nor did I get any credit for killing him, or any clue to his fate. Killing the remaining merchants was no problem.

What gives? To my mind, a destroyer ramming a submarine wins. Was I lucky or is the collision damage model porked? Or are my assumptions wrong?

08-02-07, 11:13 AM	#1
louist Swabbie Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 5 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	immersion killing collisions Playing 1.3 and TM, realistic settings and encountered a convoy with a single DD escort. I did an end run after shadowing and waiting for night and approached the convoy, I thought, reasonably stealthily. Minimum periscope use. As you may know, in Trigger Maru, the destroyers are very sensitive, and though this one was a few miles away, as I got within 2000 of the cargo ships, he started charging. Cover blown, I decided to surface, get as close as I could and let the merchies have it. You know the rest. I took a little too long firing the torps and when I began to turn and crash dive, the rear of the sub and the destroyer collided somewhat. I had bulkhead and engine damage, and a bit of flooding. I caught my dive and was able to hover at 90 feet. I would have been moving, but the DD had disappeared. I figured he was sitting silent on the surface listening for me. When the bulkhead was repaired and the flooding stopped, periscope revealed no DD. Nor did I get any credit for killing him, or any clue to his fate. Killing the remaining merchants was no problem. What gives? To my mind, a destroyer ramming a submarine wins. Was I lucky or is the collision damage model porked? Or are my assumptions wrong?