US 1000lb GP bomb test

[Nikademus]

ORIGINAL: MadDawg

And I submit you take a chill pill before you have some kind of seizure [;)]. Seriously though, my point was that a single bomb itself would have been very unlikely to hurt here, I was not referring to any fire that man have been caused by said bomb.

Dawg

Very true MD....while fire is a danger to any ship, in truth, Yamato was not "doomed" to die by fire thereby is not an example of an exception. [:)]

[Svar]

Since I just had an encounter with the Yamoto in my Scenario #14 game I thought I would share the results with the extremely active posters on this thread.

On 3 Nov 42 the Yamoto was in hex 59,92 with no damage heading to Gili Gili.
On 4 Nov 42 she was in hex 57,94 and was hit with 2 torpedos and 1 bomb, damage 26/57/12.
On 5 Nov 42 she was in hex 57,91 and was hit with 1 torpedo and 18 bombs, damage 38/74/36.
On 6 Nov 42 she was in hex 57,88, damage 44/72/14.
On 7 Nov 42 she was in hex 58,86, damage 48/82/6.
On 8 Nov 42 she was in hex 59,84, damage 48/89/2.
On 9 Nov 42 she was in hex 59,82, damage 48/89.
On 10 Nov 42 she was in hex 60,80, damage 48/90.
On 11 Nov 42 she was in hex 62,80, damage 48/92.

I don't think Yamoto was hit after 5 Nov 42 but sailing to Truk has continued to cause flooding and it appears that the fires caused both flooding damage and system damage.

According to my sources the Yamoto took over 10 torpedos plus numerous bombs before she sank, so my results look pretty historical. I don't know the ultimate fate of Yamoto in my game because 11 Nov 42 is the last turn I played and she is only 2 hexes from Truk.

[siRkid]

According to my sources the Yamoto took over 10 torpedos plus numerous bombs before she sank, so my results look pretty historical. I don't know the ultimate fate of Yamoto in my game because 11 Nov 42 is the last turn I played and she is only 2 hexes from Truk.

Man, are you holding your breath or what!

[Svar]

ORIGINAL: Kid
Man, are you holding your breath or what!

I'm playing the US and figure the Yamoto will make Truk safely but should be out of the war for about 18 months. Before then the new patch will be out and I will have started a modified version of the 8 Dec 41 Grand Scenario. There are many changes to the OOB that if not implemented I will change for my own 8 Dec 41 Scenario. I have played enough now that I'm comfortable to start the Grand Scenario at the hard level as the US and play until near the end.

[Rainerle]

ORIGINAL: Mr.Frag

This is exactly why I ask for some historical fact. People post things without details, people read them and draw conclusions that are wrong.

Here are the real facts:

22 Sep 43 - 3x 2 ton mines placed by midget subs. (Damaged but still seaworthy)

3 Apr 44 - hit by 10 225 kg bombs and 4 775 kg bombs from 40 aircraft. 132 dead, 316 wounded (damaged but still seaworthy)

24 Aug 44 - hit by 2 bombs, 8 dead, 13 wounded (trivial damage!)

15 Sep 44 - hit by 1 bomb (5.4 ton Tallboy) (severe damage!)

12 Nov 44 - hit by 2 more Tallboys, 4 other near misses (bye bye Tirpitz!)

Now, show me how anything can be judged based on the above *historical* facts about the small 1000 lb USA GP bomb from the above information.

Hi,
what we can learn Mr. Frag is that RN bomb and BB experts turn to very big bombs to destroy a immobile BB after they judged that small bombs just will not do the job. And that after they hit Tirpitz with 750 kg (approx 1600 lb) bombs. So I (only me here) judge that persons historically involved in the subject (and more competent than any of us) deem 'small' (we're talking 1000lb[X(]) bombs as inappropriate to destroy BB's (and Tirpitz is less armoured than Yamato class).