PT Boat Wishlist

[alpini13]

why dont we just add an S-boat(E boat to americans)

[olds442]

why dont we just add an S-boat(E boat to americans)

what in the world dose this have to do with the PT boat and smoke??

[AWwrgwy]

There is a base angle computer that we lack here - it would take the course and speed of your target, your range to target and the speed of your torpedo and then calculate a solution for you as to what course you had to launch the torpedo on to score a hit.  Without that aiming computer here, it is extremely difficult to figure the angle needed to get a hit with a torpedo.  In aircraft, we pretty much just bore in close and let fly and point blank range.  In a PT boat though, it is pretty much impossible to get in that close unless someone is stupid enough to drive the CV over the PT spawn.

Check this out:

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,312006.0.html



wrongway

[EagleDNY]

Check this out:
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,312006.0.html

wrongway

Yes, I've made PT attacks this way.  A couple of pictures in that thread are pretty unrealistic though - when is the last time you saw a PT that close to an enemy Cruiser that wasn't being blasted to bits by auto-ack or 5" fire?  The destroyers auto-ack would be blasting this PT boat to flinders long before it got inside the ring to launch a torpedo. 

It is is one thing to figure a solution that works in the training arena, but really another to make it work in the MA.  The 'slow torpedo' used by our late-model PT boats is a variation of the Mk.13 aerial torpedo and was launched by the roll-off racks.  There was another type that used an impulse launcher (similar to a destroyer launcher in that the torpedo is spewed out) and these would fire the longer Mk.8 and Mk.14 torpedoes.  The Mk.8 mod 8 was good for 15,000 yards at 29 knots with a 466 lb warhead, but having a torpedo SLOWER than the CV group doesn't do us much good.  The Mk.14 has a 4,500M @ 46 knots setting with a 668 Lb warhead that might be a good fit, and I know via the manual that the launcher was supposed to be rated to handle it.