Overkill

[melvi]

Is there anything you can do to avoid this overkill/waste of ammo?

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Those ships would had sunk with like 1/10 of the hits they have received.
Regards:

Melvi

[atheory]

I imagine most of those shell hits are from small caliber (machinegun type guns) that do little damage. The game appears quite proud to announce every bullet hit

[Alessandro S.]

Not really. If you do not expect resistance you can have them sail without torpedoes.
A right side mouse button click on "re arm from port" should dump all torps into the pool.
But there is not currently a way to tell a TF which weapons to use.

[RangerJoe]

Is there anything you can do to avoid this overkill/waste of ammo?

waste of ammo and torpedoes.jpg

Those ships would had sunk with like 1/10 of the hits they have received.
Regards:

Melvi

You can keep your ships at home. But really, a lot of those hits are light AA fire, if you hit one of the "flag" symbols during the combat, you will see a list of what guns hits what ship.

[melvi]

You can keep your ships at home. But really, a lot of those hits are light AA fire, if you hit one of the "flag" symbols during the combat, you will see a list of what guns hits what ship.

Aham! thats very nice to know!
Besides i dont know what are my ships doing firing a 7. something milimiters machine AA gun towards those merchants, bah.

Regards:

Melvi

[RangerJoe]

You can keep your ships at home. But really, a lot of those hits are light AA fire, if you hit one of the "flag" symbols during the combat, you will see a list of what guns hits what ship.

Aham! thats very nice to know!
Besides i dont know what are my ships doing firing a 7. something milimiters machine AA gun towards those merchants, bah.

Regards:

Melvi

In my last beta test game, one machine gun hit and an empty tanker blew up!

[melvi]

In my last beta test game, one machine gun hit and an empty tanker blew up!

Doh! Really???? Thats a L.U.C.K.Y. shot for sure!

Regards:
Melvi

[RangerJoe]

In my last beta test game, one machine gun hit and an empty tanker blew up!

Doh! Really???? Thats a L.U.C.K.Y. shot for sure!

Regards:
Melvi

Not for that tanker crew!

[melvi]

Not for that tanker crew!

Yeahhhhhhh, i B.E.T.

[panzer51]

So if this is normal to see ship sinking by being hit by several 7.7mm bullets then the game has a serious problem.

[melvi]

So if this is normal to see ship sinking by being hit by several 7.7mm bullets then the game has a serious problem.

Have you had any ship sunk with only 7 mm bullets???? really??? Did you caught any screenshot?
I have needed some of those and couple torpedoes and/or 120mm/76.2 mm in the tens....

Regards:
Melvi

[Wiedrock]

Is there anything you can do to avoid this overkill/waste of ammo?

waste of ammo and torpedoes.jpg

Those ships would had sunk with like 1/10 of the hits they have received.
Regards:

Melvi

Why is the last line of the report cut off? Or what is "Starb"?

[adarbrauner]

You can keep your ships at home. But really, a lot of those hits are light AA fire, if you hit one of the "flag" symbols during the combat, you will see a list of what guns hits what ship.

3 torpedoes (and the poster does not specify how many torps were launched in total) for that AK target only is still too much.
Devs better tweak something to limit it according to the target, otherwise in high intensity engagements WITPAE style this detail could easily become critical.

[RangerJoe]

You can keep your ships at home. But really, a lot of those hits are light AA fire, if you hit one of the "flag" symbols during the combat, you will see a list of what guns hits what ship.

3 torpedoes (and the poster does not specify how many torps were launched in total) for that AK target only is still too much.
Devs better tweak something to limit it according to the target, otherwise in high intensity engagements WITPAE style this detail could easily become critical.

Look at the skill levels of the crews firing the weapons . . .

It also depends upon the torpedo size and thus the warhead size, you probably won't get too many large naval engagements in WIS like people do in WITP:AE.

A player can apparently also offload torpedoes from his ships.