You sunk my battleship!

Captain Birdseye · 02-07-10, 06:17 PM

Morn Morn fellow Kaleuns

Just a quick two questions if you don't mind

1) In my latest patrol, I got sick of hiding at the bottom while a frigate bombed me to death, so I came to PD and blewed him up with a torpedo. This is early '44. Is that realistic? Am I right to award my crew Iron Crosses or historically speaking would someone put a luger bullet through my head for stupidity?

2) What exactly is the difference between a frigate and destroyer? How can I tell what a ship is? Is there a "For Dummies" scale of ships I can look at?

Thanks.

Torplexed · 02-07-10, 07:41 PM

The destroyer of World War II was a fast unarmored warship of 1000 to 3000 tons displacement. It was typically armed with four- or five-inch guns, torpedoes, antisubmarine weapons, and light antiaircraft weapons for point defense.

Frigates were similar to destroyer escorts, but were based on merchant hulls and carried less armament. Their chief merit was that they were cheap.

Captain Birdseye · 02-07-10, 08:09 PM

Ahh I see, thank you.

So something like a Corvette, which was mass produced and thrown together pretty quickly would fall under the Frigate class?

On an unrelated note... I was talking to one of the key designers of the Daring class. He told me of the inaccuracies in building the Hunt classes (you guys will know so, so much more than me on this) namely putting the height of the top deck above the keel ant the figure for the lower deck, making them top heavy. This was due to staff shortages and only one member of staff to check measurements, so no cross checking occured.

Something I never knew anyway!!

After the things he's told me, i'm almost reluctant to sink the virtual counterpart

maillemaker · 02-07-10, 08:58 PM

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In my latest patrol, I got sick of hiding at the bottom while a frigate bombed me to death, so I came to PD and blewed him up with a torpedo.

It may not be accurate, but it's the way to play SHIII to win. In good weather in late war you will have a very hard time hiding from escorts underwater. Better to come up to PD and fight it out. Best thing is to get one to chase you and then shoot a magnetic torpedo under them at 500m range.

Steve

02-07-10, 06:17 PM	#1
Captain Birdseye Watch Officer Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Sat behind my desk at BdU tapping away on my Enigma machine. Posts: 339 Downloads: 44 Uploads: 0	You sunk my battleship! Morn Morn fellow Kaleuns Just a quick two questions if you don't mind 1) In my latest patrol, I got sick of hiding at the bottom while a frigate bombed me to death, so I came to PD and blewed him up with a torpedo. This is early '44. Is that realistic? Am I right to award my crew Iron Crosses or historically speaking would someone put a luger bullet through my head for stupidity? 2) What exactly is the difference between a frigate and destroyer? How can I tell what a ship is? Is there a "For Dummies" scale of ships I can look at? Thanks. __________________

02-07-10, 08:09 PM	#3
Captain Birdseye Watch Officer Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Sat behind my desk at BdU tapping away on my Enigma machine. Posts: 339 Downloads: 44 Uploads: 0	Ahh I see, thank you. So something like a Corvette, which was mass produced and thrown together pretty quickly would fall under the Frigate class? On an unrelated note... I was talking to one of the key designers of the Daring class. He told me of the inaccuracies in building the Hunt classes (you guys will know so, so much more than me on this) namely putting the height of the top deck above the keel ant the figure for the lower deck, making them top heavy. This was due to staff shortages and only one member of staff to check measurements, so no cross checking occured. Something I never knew anyway!! After the things he's told me, i'm almost reluctant to sink the virtual counterpart __________________

02-07-10, 07:41 PM	#2
Torplexed Let's Sink Sumptin' ! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,823 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	The destroyer of World War II was a fast unarmored warship of 1000 to 3000 tons displacement. It was typically armed with four- or five-inch guns, torpedoes, antisubmarine weapons, and light antiaircraft weapons for point defense. Frigates were similar to destroyer escorts, but were based on merchant hulls and carried less armament. Their chief merit was that they were cheap.