Fun with Midgets

[Puhis]

ORIGINAL: Historiker

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Historiker

And how many of their carriers did you all loose to minefields?
I'd love to use them more often, but I doubt its worth loosing their carrier to a minefield regarding their small chance of success.

How would you lose their carriers to minefields? Many of these (particularly in the early war) minisubs have ranges ~500nm. This should allow you to 'launch' them from a safe stand-off distance.

500nm?
Mine have 80, not more.

There's at least 3 midget sub class. First model have range of 80 nm, second model have range about 500 nm (but that one model is much slower). Later models are not available until late 1942 or 1943?

[Historiker]

Nice!

But if manually launched, they don't enter the ports themselves (attacking disbanded ships), do they?

[Ddog]

Did anyone see the documentary that featured mysteries of Pearl Harbor? One of them was about a successful midget sub attack that was possibly caught on film. The following picture shows what they believed was the sub and the spray from the prop of the sub as it porpoised through the waves. They did several things to try and recreate the items in the picture and I believe they proved their point.

[Ddog]

Sorry, had issues posting and it posted twice.

[erstad]

Here's my biggest success with midgets. IMHO, midgets are kind of like playing the lottery. It probably won't come to much, but some people hit the jackpot.



Midget Sub attack inside harbor of Shortlands!!!

Japanese Ships
SSX Ha-13

Allied Ships
PT-157, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage

[jmalter]

erstad, your post is full of win, i LOL'd.

[FeurerKrieg]

I've had some hits on enemy ships at Port Moresby in my game with my midgets subs. They have even been recovered, rearmed and are out on the prowl again. Hopefully their experience bump will help them do even better on their next mission.