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Ship screen and FOW

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 9:48 am
by Yaab
While my CL Boise took one aerial torpedo and suffered huge damage, on the same turn CA Houston took two aerial torpedoes and suffered moderate damage. I watched the combat animation of the attack and saw Kates strike CA Houston twice.

RESRAT XXI I saw torps in amintion-screen says 250kg bomb (1).png
RESRAT XXI I saw torps in amintion-screen says 250kg bomb (1).png (1.28 MiB) Viewed 294 times

To my astonishment, once I opened the CA Houston's ship screen to compare the CA Houston's damage to the CL Boise's, I noticed that the last thing that had struck CA Houston was a ...250kg GP bomb.

RESRAT XXI I saw torps in amintion-screen says 250kg bomb (2).png
RESRAT XXI I saw torps in amintion-screen says 250kg bomb (2).png (1.41 MiB) Viewed 294 times

So, either the combat animation was FOWed or the ship screen is FOWed.

There is a third explanation - an invisible patrol aircraft, that is not mentioned in messages or combat/ops reports, hit CA Houston after the torpedo attack. ( I have written about it here:
https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... 9#p4753569

Re: Ship screen and FOW

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 7:59 am
by Chris21wen
Doesn't mean the bomb caused the damage, it means the last thing to hit it was the bomb.

Re: Ship screen and FOW

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 8:28 am
by Yaab
But later in the turn, and afterwards in the combat report/ops report, there was no subsequent air attack against this TF. That is the point.

Re: Ship screen and FOW

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 9:32 am
by RangerJoe
It does not necessarily mean that the bomb hit first.

I have had torpedo hits with only single digit non-major damage.