A Screen Shot for the Ages

[vettim89]

For those of you who don't follow my AAR, my opponent Larry and I think this may be an all time classic. Every PT boat skipper has wet dream about this. For the record no hits were scored. I just had to share it for those who may have missed it

[Mike Solli]

Looks to me like there were some hits, just not the way you had hoped. [:'(]

[GreasyLake]

Actually all the action was between CV Hiryu and the PT boat during the Japanese turn. That was what really got me going, my newest carrier was escorting a transport group, and comes close to getting torped!

[Ken Estes]

That's more interesting data for how the surface engagement probability works, as I think the speed differential counts for a lot, and normally a PT could not engage KB, but you are running with a Junyo CV and escorting a convoy, so one or both was a factor in the MTB being able to engage.

[dennishe]

In a game with Iley I bumped into KB with a surface TF including pretty much all OZ cruisers. Didn't manage to hit any CV though. For some reason my ships decided to go for the escorts and only damaged those while they got sunk themselves. KB had to withdraw though. Has anybody ever succeed in sinking a CV by a surface battle?

[bobogoboom]

i almost sunk saratoga with a badly damaged ijn bb against john the 3rd i think it was mutsu. hit it with 2 14inch shells and caused a magazine(if i recall correctly) to go up.

[EUBanana]

ORIGINAL: dennishe

In a game with Iley I bumped into KB with a surface TF including pretty much all OZ cruisers. Didn't manage to hit any CV though. For some reason my ships decided to go for the escorts and only damaged those while they got sunk themselves. KB had to withdraw though. Has anybody ever succeed in sinking a CV by a surface battle?

I sunk a Japanese CVL with a couple of 15" hits from HMS Warspite off Colombo in the monsoon season in a night engagement. A second CVL took a single 15" hit as well, but didn't sink.

[EUBanana]

I even got a screenie.  [:D]

Now this is a screenshot for the ages!

[Gem35]

ORIGINAL: EUBanana

I even got a screenie.  [:D]

Now this is a screenshot for the ages!

I'll see your screenie and raise you mine.[;)]

[Gem35]

And then raise you the girl I am dating atm.[;)]

[EUBanana]

[:D]

CVs sunk by a BB, especially a British one, is about as sweet as it gets.

...in WitP, anyway.  [;)]

[bradfordkay]

I'll go with the BB sinking the CVL, unless Gem35's GF wants to drop the halter...[;)]

[Gem35]

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

I'll go with the BB sinking the CVL, unless Gem35's GF wants to drop the halter...[;)]

Well I can tell you about it, but maybe I can talk about baseball.[;)]

[John Lansford]

I had the North Carolina run down and sink Junyo in my current game.  It looks nice seeing '16" Gun" beside her name on the sunk screen...
 
On the other hand, how in the world did you manage to sink Akagi with 500 lb bombs?  The only CV I've sunk with those was Hiyo; the Big Six were all immune to them in this game IIRC. Not IRL, obviously...

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: John Lansford

I had the North Carolina run down and sink Junyo in my current game.  It looks nice seeing '16" Gun" beside her name on the sunk screen...

On the other hand, how in the world did you manage to sink Akagi with 500 lb bombs?  The only CV I've sunk with those was Hiyo; the Big Six were all immune to them in this game IIRC. Not IRL, obviously...

Depends on the Mod you are playing...


EDIT: You COULD possibly sink Akagi in standard WITP without penetrating hits...you'd need a whole lot of them though (enough nonpenetrating hits can start fires which can spread...)

[Bogo Mil]

The "sunk by" column sometimes contains jokes. I once had an air attack against a CVL near Java. One Hudson scored a bomb hit, and 5 Dutch planes hit with torpedoes. The ship was eventually listed as "sunk by 250lb-bomb". [:'(]

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Bogo Mil

The "sunk by" column sometimes contains jokes. I once had an air attack against a CVL near Java. One Hudson scored a bomb hit, and 5 Dutch planes hit with torpedoes. The ship was eventually listed as "sunk by 250lb-bomb". [:'(]

I've seen Ise sunk by 500lb bomb before now [X(][X(][:D]

[Gem35]

Robert is correct, I play vanilla WitP stock scenario 15 and iirc, my land based heavies put quite a few torps in her and she limped away and was finished off by some dive-bombers from one of my carriers.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Bogo Mil

The "sunk by" column sometimes contains jokes. I once had an air attack against a CVL near Java. One Hudson scored a bomb hit, and 5 Dutch planes hit with torpedoes. The ship was eventually listed as "sunk by 250lb-bomb". [:'(]

I've seen Ise sunk by 500lb bomb before now [X(][X(][:D]

True - weird stuff can creep in... there was a thread a while back trying to figure out why the "sunk by" was listed as it was... there was speculation that it was the weapon that caused the most damage, or the weapon that hit last... none of it made much sense because someone always found an exception to any proposed "rule" about how it works. [&:]

[Hornblower]

a while back a USN group of DD's ran into a IJN "transport" group of ak's and DD's..  after action report showed one of the USN DD's hit by a 14" shell.  In truth the ship wasn't even hit, but still odd.  Or a AK on HGH..  Mega Maru..