geofflambert
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Joined: 12/23/2010 From: St. Louis Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: geofflambert In reality, damaging or sinking a sub with one or two depth charges would be like winning the powerball. PBYs could and did carry them. I can't imagine that aircraft carriers would have them in inventory, certainly not fleet carriers. I don't know what went on in the Atlantic, though. All they would be good for is door knockers, letting the sub know to keep underwater and deep. Catching them on the surface is what you want ideally, and bombs would be best for that. In the end, I doubt the game will reward you for having depth charges available, and if I were the coder I might consider penalizing you. A problem with patrol aircraft carrying depth charges is if they encounter enemy surface units. I imagine you'd be cussing yourself (the pilot) out about 'why did I have them load depth charges?' One more thing, concerning carrier aircraft: how are they going to set the depth on the charge? Not that you brought that up, I just thought I'd cover that. It was very difficult to hit a submarine directly with a bomb fused for a surface target. "Depth bombs" were set to explode at a depth, but were still not as effective as ye olde depth charge per se. Your characterization is exactly 180 degrees separated from the reality of the situation in the Atlantic. A bomb run was unlikely to meet with success. A depth charge attack on a surfaced or recently submerged submarine was devastating-the DCs would be set for shallow triggering and were ghastly. Read Blair's Hitler's U-boat War for further information. You're presuming I can read. I have an assistant for that and he doesn't know what you're talking about. I will leave the matter there, and being a gentleman, I'm sure you will too.
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