Klackers! They Have Clackers!

[Manock]

Klackers! They have Clackers!

Its early 1944, and have been forced to give up my sports car Type II so Im wallowing around in a Type VII, and frankly, Im not that good at it.

A convoy showed up on my port side, & I couldnt avoid it without being court martialed so I loaded my top two torpedoes with Type IV fish, and the bottom two w/ Type Is.

I went in at periscope depth in the middle of the day, and sure enough here came a destroyer at 14 knots so I fired a Type IV at him at around 1500 meters.

He heard it coming, & veered off on a looping course. I figured I missed, & went in anyway to launch the two Type Is at the convoy, & then give up.

I launched, & was preparing to surface, & wave my naked posterior at the looping destroyer when the destroyer now behind me took a torpedo strike directly astern.

I zoomed in, saw the explosion, & the water guyser behind it, & expected to watch the destroyer sink. So I put my pants back on, & plotted a course out of the convoy.

To my distress, & astonishment, the destroyer did not sink but continued to sail blissfully on. I was considering becoming hysterical when I noticed the destroyer at least was not coming my way so I eventually snuck out of there.

So what happened?

Klackers! My Boy Klackers!

The Allies got tipped on german accoustic torpedoes, and began dragging noise makers behind them giving the fish something else to hit besides the destroyer itself.

Nicely done SH3!

Not only are the clackers modeled, but apparently the at least temporary blinding of the destroyers hydrophone-sonar sensors is also modeled.

Well Done.

Manock

Either that, or something else happened.[/b]

[andy_311]

No homeing torps do work because I use them all the time from 43 onwards okay I do admit sometimes they do miss but not very often.

[Keelbuster]

Probably a magnetic pistol premature det. It would be cool though if those defenses were modeled.

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[Manock]

I didnt fire up SH3 to for sure check this but I think Type IV s do not have a magnetic setting. Physical strike only.

One of the reasons Type V s quickly superseded the 4 s.

Do you have sim information on your claim klackers not modeled?

[Myxale]

Well this would be so cool, if the Tommies dragged klackes behind them!

But i don't think our humble sim sims that! :hmm:

[Dowly]

Nope, no klackers in SHIII.

[Keelbuster]

Originally Posted by Manock

I didnt fire up SH3 to for sure check this but I think Type IV s do not have a magnetic setting. Physical strike only.

One of the reasons Type V s quickly superseded the 4 s.

Do you have sim information on your claim klackers not modeled?

They've got mag - i usually set my t5s to mag so they get further under the boat and do more damage rather than pop off the propeller. I don't have 'information' to support my claim, but with all the other things that they missed in developing SH3 it would seem odd if they had got around to putting in 'clackers'. We're lucky we got T5s...

Kb