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Barb -> "Unwanted behavior" regarding submarine ammo keeping (5/23/2017 6:24:11 AM)
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Hello,
I had noticed something, that could be "Working as designed" and is well within part of how other ships/Task Forces behave, yet it is not so desirable to submarines.
I am playing DBB-C scenario, Scen-28, and I am keeping records of every allied sub combat taking place. So far I have noticed the same behavior rather constantly and I can easily provide some statistics and examples from the data gathered.
So the situation is this: Within game if a ship or Task Force is low on ammo it is reluctant to engage (avoids combat), or the ship refrains from firing much. Also a Naval bombardment mission usually results in at least some ammo is being kept for self defense purpose (e.g. battleship firing 6 of its 9 ammo points, keeping 3, cruisers firing 8 of 12 ammo points, etc...) - so far so good - an expected and probably correct behavior.
Now come to submarines. Take Gato/Balao class as a basis. They have 3 pairs of forward torpedo tubes (each with 3 ammo) and 2 pairs of aft torpedo tubes (each with 3 ammo) for a total of 30 torpedoes (6+4 in tubes and 12+8 reloads). While they have enough ammo, they blaze away with torpedoes as targets present themselves. Yet once it comes down to the last 10 torpedoes (1 ammo for each pair of tubes), the submarines are still seeking combat, yet they do not fire at all. They are just becoming a targets - being sighted, located, spotted.
E.g. a sub on patrol - 20 engagements in total - in the first 12 engagements it had fired about 20 torpedoes - but the last 8 engagements are without firing any torpedoes and just ASW attacks.
Exception to this can be:
- Attack on the surface - when sub can fire away all its remaining torpedoes without regard to keeping any in reserve
- Having say 12 torpedoes aboard and firing 4-6 on a "fat" target - as at the start of the attack they are still above the threshold.
Thus in fact, instead of sub firing 30 torpedoes in a target rich environment, they will fire just 20 and then it becomes a target - and could be sent home. So subs are about 2/3 as effective as they could be.
Can anyone look at this? Or someone else had noticed similar behavior?
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