Collisions

[Fallschirmjager]

And I wonder how many players would have keyboard smashing rage if they lost a sub to a circular running torpedo. The USN lost 2 or maybe 3 subs to their own torpedoes.

[LargeSlowTarget]

IRL ships can even hit *charted* rocks. Can't recall the ship's name but I have read about a British man-of-war colliding with a sub-surface rock pinnacle because the pencil line the navigator had drawn on the map with the projected course track was obscuring the obstacle - and the ship was dead on track. IIRC it happened during the Norway campaign.

EDIT: Did some research, found the ship http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Effingham_%28D98%29

On 18 May 1940 Effingham was lost while engaged on transport escort duties. Traveling at 23 knots, outside the Norwegian Leads to minimise the risk of air attack, she was only one hour away from her destination when she struck a large rock in the area of Bodø (Bliksvær), in the Faxsen Shoal, near Bodø (20 minutes from the destination), between Bliksvær and Terra islands. The rock was well known and marked on the ship's charts, but when the navigator had drawn the ship's passage onto the map, his pencil mark had obscured the obstacle directly in the ship's path. No one was killed in the wreck, which was destroyed with a torpedo from the accompanying destroyer HMS Matabele on 21 May after all her crucial papers and equipment had been removed.

[SierraJuliet]

All right... a little honesty here everyone... Yes Todd you are cursed by the die rolls. [:D]

[bradfordkay]

ORIGINAL: mind_messing

Out of the 52 US submarine losses in WW2, four were due to grounding. Yet we never see that in game

I've had ships strike a uncharted rock, which is close enough.

The skipper will always claim that it was an "uncharted" rock.

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: wdolson

Ships also hit friendly mines during the war. That never happens in game. Or at least I've never seen it.

Bill

I've seen people say it does, especially if it's like the next day or two after a port is captured and a minefield layed. Now if you're sowing minefields from the air there should be no way a friendly should go in there without risk.