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He didn’t actually do anything wrong, though I haven’t read the transcript.

I wasn’t expecting another turn.

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Main Gun fire on MF Tortue d’Acier!

Tertiary Battery fire on MF Bone Apart!

Tertiary Battery on MF Tortue d’Acier!

They were popular mostly because the boats that used them (smaller, faster craft used against larger, slower battleships) were cheap and easy to build, versus the potential benefits of their success, namely the loss of an (expensive) enemy capital ship.

They were used in large numbers, or in circumstances that maximised their chances of success, such as at night, or via hopefully undetected submarines. It’s a lot harder to take evasive action when you don’t know you need to. It’s also a lot harder to take evasive action when you have little time to take it, as torpedo boats generally worked up close. Very dangerous in terms of premature explosions, and very dangerous ‘cause your torpedo boat designed to be light and fast will not stand up to contact against a massive ship designed to keep floating with multiple holes in it :p

Equally so, they were very limited in what they could carry. Four torpedoes was about it, less if they were expected to carry other armaments like depth charges.

As you say, they were useful weapons used correctly. If we’re chatting pre-WWI stuff, I can’t quite recall the details, but the Japanese were fighting the Russians in the early 1900s. The Russian flagship got shot up by the Japanese, the Japanese admiral ordered his torpedo boats and destroyers to finish it off with torpedoes, and they got 3 hits on a vessel that was pretty much already sinking.

In the context of the game, we’re not simulating speed, conditions, proximity or anything like the fun stuff you’d have to take into account in, dare I say it, RL, and in RL if you fired a torpedo, chances are you weren’t going to hit what you were aiming at, unguided.

RE:torpedoes:

Manually aimed torpedoes wouldn’t really work for ship-to ship battles, as there is far too much maneuvering and torpedoes are slow, relative to other armaments anyway. There’s also the factor of when the torpedo would arm, as the firing ship wouldn’t want the torpedo to prematurely explode, ‘cause torpedoes are also super unreliable. Also, depth of torpedo as you would ideally want it to explode directly beneath a target for maximum damage. /unnecessary complications

If they were self-aiming torpedoes, some defense should be allowed for targeted ships as they could be thrown off using chaff or some other name I can’t quite recall... flairs or some such.

Anyway:

Damage Control Tertiary Battery

Main gun fire on MF Tortue d’Acier

Secondary Battery fire on MF Bone Apart

Isn’t the tertiary battery fixed by already? ‘cause it’s 3/3. Or do I only get to fix one thing evar?

Quote from: hector13 on September 23, 2019, 03:06:29 pm

Small packages like in Se7en?

I'd say that was more of a medium-sized package, really.
Presumably rather hefty, too.

Around 11 pounds, or 5 kg.

I also made a search term which’ll put me on some lists, thanks.