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wondering if its possible to inflict large amount of damage on a carrier TF (ie Wasp IRL) with subs.....

ORIGINAL: KDonovan

wondering if its possible to inflict large amount of damage on a carrier TF (ie Wasp IRL) with subs.....

There are AARs reporting this on (rare) occasions. Doesn't happen that often, and especially NOT with sub combat as it is now (not including 1.7x patches which are still in beta...) Mostly, people have their subs FLEE from CVs at this point.

ORIGINAL: KDonovan

wondering if its possible to inflict large amount of damage on a carrier TF (ie Wasp IRL) with subs.....

in my game with Mogami, Dutch Sub O19 attacks a Carrier 60nm SSW of Kendari. The victim was HMIJS CVL Shoho, with 2 Torpedo hits. She was later hit by (3) 1000lb bombs and sank.

Havn't torched a carrier yet but i did once sink Prince of Wales by sub unassisted. six torpedo hits. glug glug

Yup.

Im game vs Pompack 1 x Mk XIV Torp sunk CVE Hosho (poor escuse for a carrier I know). Took 3 days to sink IIRC.

Steven

ORIGINAL: Speedy

Yup.

Im game vs Pompack 1 x Mk XIV Torp sunk CVE Hosho (poor escuse for a carrier I know). Took 3 days to sink IIRC.

Steven

Speaking of lucky hits, I once sank the Yamamoto with one 16" shell on the first shot of a night battle. I don't know if that could have happened in RL.

I sank the AI's Hiryu once with a Dutch boat. V 1.6.

First time I played the AI in Scen 15, I lost the Lexington to two or three torpedo hits - on turn 2! [:@]

US sub hit Hiyo once, while it was heading to truk(5/43).
3 turns later the AI decided to send it back to japan. A different sub hits it twice again.....sayanora[:D]





Joe D.

In the PBEM game I am playing the I-10 put two torpedoes in the Enterprise and one in the Yorktown on the same day. The next day she hit the big E again. Five or so days later I got confirmation Enterprise went down.

Needless to say when I-10 is spotted there is a vigerous allied responce and she has had to take three vacations in Tokyo to recover from these greetings.

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

Speaking of lucky hits, I once sank the Yamamoto with one 16" shell on the first shot of a night battle.

poor admiral. [:(]
was he on board of his sailboat?

hey i sunk CA Indianapolis returning to Pearl on the 8th December hit by 4 torp[:D]

in one of current PBEM games my team mate lost CVL Zuiho after only one torpedo hit..it was Dutch submarine I think, Zuiho was on her maiden voyage to Singapore

[:@] bad luck

There are AARs reporting this on (rare) occasions. Doesn't happen that often, and especially NOT with sub combat as it is now (not including 1.7x patches which are still in beta...) Mostly, people have their subs FLEE from CVs at this point.

yeah, when a carrier gets near a sub, the most likely event is the end of the sub [:-]

ORIGINAL: Marten

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

Speaking of lucky hits, I once sank the Yamamoto with one 16" shell on the first shot of a night battle.

poor admiral. [:(]
was he on board of his sailboat?

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ORIGINAL: Marten

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

Speaking of lucky hits, I once sank the Yamamoto with one 16" shell on the first shot of a night battle.

poor admiral. [:(]
was he on board of his sailboat?

Haha!

[:D]

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

Speaking of lucky hits, I once sank the Yamamoto with one 16" shell on the first shot of a night battle. I don't know if that could have happened in RL.

Sinking one man with a 1 ton shell is hardly an accomplishment..., even a near miss would stun him into drowning. Now if you had sunk the YAMATO with one shell, that would be impressive......

I had an S class sub put the Shoho under near Truk in one game. She may have been hit a few weeks earlier by a 500lb bomb, but at the time she sank she was headed from Truk towards Wake Is (still in allied hands), so she couldn't have been badly damaged.

Yes, dutch sub sank CV Kaga.

Going the other way, I had a single sub-launched torp hit sink my USS North Carolina...and I wasn't best pleased!

Steve.