Submarine warfare

[juggler69uk]

A thought occured to me

Are there any plans to let any submarines attack other submarines ?

Reason:

If two players both field a full fleet of submarines then neither can attack the other unless one of them surfaces (and lets face it you just wouldnt do that would you ?)

 

[DM]

No. It has happened successfully only once (U864 sunk by HMS Venturer in February 1945). Subs in WW2 just weren't equipped to engage submerged boats.

 

[juggler69uk]

So we shake hands and call it a draw then :wink:

 

[Keith]

No. It has happened successfully only once (U864 sunk by HMS Venturer in February 1945). Subs in WW2 just weren't equipped to engage submerged boats.

The only instance I had heard of is a U-boat that sunk itself. The wreck of a long lost German submarine was found off the coast of the eastern United States. The theory is that it launched a torpedo with a dodgy gyro that circled back onto its own firing position.

 

[Lord David the Denied]

That's almost as good as the Spanish garrison that routed themselves with their own musket volley... :lol:

 

[chaos0xomega]

That's almost as good as the Spanish garrison that routed themselves with their own musket volley... :lol:

? Do tell, I never heard that one before!

As for the original post, I dont thin you will ever see an all submarine fleet, unless you're playing me. In which case I got surcoufs.... bring it on!

 

[emperorpenguin]

That's almost as good as the Spanish garrison that routed themselves with their own musket volley... :lol:

? Do tell, I never heard that one before!!

I'll double check the details but at one Peninsular battle a spanish battalion panicked at the sight of the French and opened fire too far away, no French were hit and the noise of the volley caused the Spanish to flee! :roll:

 

[DM]

The only instance I had heard of is a U-boat that sunk itself. The wreck of a long lost German submarine was found off the coast of the eastern United States. The theory is that it launched a torpedo with a dodgy gyro that circled back onto its own firing position.

OK, I'll qualify that by saying the only case where a submerged submarine sank ANOTHER submerged submarine was the sinking by HMS Venturer. It is believed that quite a few US subs were sunk by their own weapons in the early days of WW2; US torpedoes were pretty awful at that stage of the war, but thats another story.....

 

[emperorpenguin]

That's almost as good as the Spanish garrison that routed themselves with their own musket volley... :lol:

? Do tell, I never heard that one before!!

I'll double check the details but at one Peninsular battle a spanish battalion panicked at the sight of the French and opened fire too far away, no French were hit and the noise of the volley caused the Spanish to flee! :roll:

It was at Talavera. Spanish regulations called for infantry to open fire as soon as possible, where almost everyone else waited as long as possible to fire.

 

[emperorpenguin]

No. It has happened successfully only once (U864 sunk by HMS Venturer in February 1945). Subs in WW2 just weren't equipped to engage submerged boats.

There is a documentary about this on the History channel in the next few days! Just watched the ad, the program is called U-864: Hitler's Last Deadly Secret
9pm Friday 27th

 

[Shadow Queen]

that the one that the US made the H bomb??

 

[emperorpenguin]

that the one that the US made the H bomb??

no it was transferring plans for the Me262 to the Japanese

 

[Shadow Queen]

aaaah not seen that one. History channel?

 

[emperorpenguin]

aaaah not seen that one. History channel?

4 posts up before your question..............