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Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980
If I recall, GROWLER attacked three destroyers in the Aleutians on her first patrol in 1942. Hit two of the DD's, then the third DD launched torpedoes at Growler. Growler damaged the third in return, severely. That is going solely on memory, I will check my sources have saved and the patrol report and share with here tomorrow.
IMHO, I am inclined to agree with you overall. I will say that if a class of vessel had torpedoes, should be able to fire them in the sim. If they did not have them, really should not have them in the sim, part of maintaining a simulation.
Per the rocket launcher, I have heard that , as a upgrade (Which would be okay if its costly renown wise and only available at end of war) it is is in the works.
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I'm skeptical of torpedo's hitting a sub from any surface ship because of my experience in US Subs. When I was on USS Boston, we were a test Platform for the ADCAP, my entire tour, minus a few short deployments, was spent on loading and shooting over 750 exercise weapons over 3 years. Im no expert but being involved in that program, seeing the number of hits vs misses with such an advanced weapon does make me skeptical of ANY WWII surface ship hitting a submerged sub.
A surface ship hitting a surfaced sub is a different story and may account for a few of the 52. The 3D battlefield on surfaced units is more like 2.9D LOL If the torpedo ran on the surface it would still most likely sink a surfaced sub.
Sending Torpedo's would also require the captain to make sure any misses didn't hit his friendlies. I was attacking a task force in the Bismark Sea and some Jap lunatic starting shooting torpedo's at me. I was in the middle of the Task force! Not sure who but they hit an escort and sank it, hit a carrier and a Heavy cruiser.
Which I helped to submerge
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So Im not suggesting it should be removed, unless there's no way to control/limit it.
Just my experience & thoughts, not making any harsh judgement.
