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Title: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: Slate on August 26, 2009, 12:23:24 PM
  It's something worthy of a Vegas Strip Magic Show. A CV within a thousand yards! I fire 4 perfectly good Torpedoes and being under heavy fire my boat is destroyed so I Jump into the churning sea only to find the tools of my attack vanish into thin water.
   This disappearing ordinance configuration has made PT boats mostly useless and a waste of a Crew.
 I'm transfering to the Air Corps.  :salute

(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c45/CWO3/PT%20BOAT/DSCF0129.jpg)
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: james on August 26, 2009, 12:57:43 PM
That is a beautiful model.
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: Shuffler on August 26, 2009, 01:15:55 PM
They only disappear if you reup another ride.
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: Slate on August 26, 2009, 01:30:05 PM
  Oh OK I must sit in the tower and wait for the unknown. Did it hit yet? Should I wait longer? Oh the Drama!  :huh   I'll never get to see them hit. :cry
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: Lusche on August 26, 2009, 01:31:46 PM
  Oh OK I must sit in the tower and wait for the unknown. Did it hit yet? Should I wait longer? Oh the Drama!  :huh   I'll never get to see them hit. :cry

Still better than one player firing 100 torpedoes per minute.
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: Slate on August 26, 2009, 01:46:42 PM
Still better than one player firing 100 torpedoes per minute.

  I concede that was the intent but it may result in 0 torpedo's getting fired as the PT will lose favor.
Avoiding the PT spawns was the solution of 100 per minute. CV captains now have one less threat as most enemy will re-up fairly quickly and try something else.
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: Yarbles on August 26, 2009, 01:51:18 PM
  I concede that was the intent but it may result in 0 torpedo's getting fired as the PT will lose favor.
Avoiding the PT spawns was the solution of 100 per minute. CV captains now have one less threat as most enemy will re-up fairly quickly and try something else.

Could always fire more accurately and from further out :eek:

I wonder how many carriers were sunk by PT Boats. I would suggest if its harder now then give it a big perk bonus.
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: Demetrious on August 26, 2009, 02:08:48 PM
No, no, this is actually HTC's crude way of modeling the poor reliability of early-war American torpedoes.

I hear they're going to introduce a properly sophisticated modeling (instead of this temporary hack,) in the next patch. (That patch is also going to re-balance the Brewster by removing the propeller and nerf the Spit 16 by removing the laser beams.)
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: AWwrgwy on August 26, 2009, 02:15:02 PM
Could always fire more accurately and from further out :eek:

I wonder how many carriers were sunk by PT Boats. I would suggest if its harder now then give it a big perk bonus.

Carriers?  How about how many ships were sunk by PT Torpedoes period?  Between malfunctioning torpedoes and it being suicidal in general it just didn't happen alot.

Only place I can think of PTs facing capital ships was in the slot at Guadalcanal or The Battle of Surigao Strait in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

I actually sunk something with a PT the other day.  If you're that close, 1000 yards, you shouldn't have to wait long anyhow.


wrongway
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: FiLtH on August 26, 2009, 03:38:43 PM
  I didnt know if u didnt reup they would continue to target. Thanks.
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: Shuffler on August 26, 2009, 04:11:00 PM
On any update or patch it is a good idea to read the note included in the update or patch. Cuts down on the surprises. <S>
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: CAP1 on August 26, 2009, 07:22:55 PM
  It's something worthy of a Vegas Strip Magic Show. A CV within a thousand yards! I fire 4 perfectly good Torpedoes and being under heavy fire my boat is destroyed so I Jump into the churning sea only to find the tools of my attack vanish into thin water.
   This disappearing ordinance configuration has made PT boats mostly useless and a waste of a Crew.
 I'm transfering to the Air Corps.  :salute

(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c45/CWO3/PT%20BOAT/DSCF0129.jpg)

is that the new special issue SAPP torpedo?
 :noid
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: Shuffler on August 26, 2009, 08:30:11 PM
is that the new special issue SAPP torpedo?
 :noid

No the SAPP torps have dotted lines where the duct tape goes.
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: gyrene81 on August 26, 2009, 08:33:51 PM
is that the new special issue SAPP torpedo?
 :noid
Looks like a Japanese antacid suppository.
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: grizz441 on August 26, 2009, 08:34:07 PM
No the SAPP torps have dotted lines where the duct tape goes.

Does your copilot have to hang off the wing like Keanu Reeves in Speed hanging underneath the bus to detach the torpedo?
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: CAP1 on August 26, 2009, 08:54:14 PM
Does your copilot have to hang off the wing like Keanu Reeves in Speed hanging underneath the bus to detach the torpedo?
we're supposed to have co-pile-its?
hhmm....wonder if that was that funny noise i heard just as i tok off? :noid
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: gyrene81 on August 26, 2009, 09:03:14 PM
we're supposed to have co-pile-its?
hhmm....wonder if that was that funny noise i heard just as i tok off? :noid
:rofl geez Cap...stop that...wife-ack thinks I've finally lost my mind I'm laughing so hard.  :lol  :rofl  :lol  :rofl  :lol  :rofl
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: CAP1 on August 26, 2009, 09:42:23 PM
:rofl geez Cap...stop that...wife-ack thinks I've finally lost my mind I'm laughing so hard.  :lol  :rofl  :lol  :rofl  :lol  :rofl


hhmmmmm........being as i'm not married, i can;t offer ya any advice there.......'cept maybe tell her that ya need lots n lots of tlc to find it again? :rofl :aok :noid
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: Crash Orange on August 27, 2009, 02:21:03 PM
Carriers?  How about how many ships were sunk by PT Torpedoes period?  Between malfunctioning torpedoes and it being suicidal in general it just didn't happen alot.

D00d! John Wayne sank like twelve all by himself! Didn't you see the movie?
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: gyrene81 on August 27, 2009, 02:38:36 PM
D00d! John Wayne sank like twelve all by himself! Didn't you see the movie?
McHale's Navy sank hundreds over a 4 season run.  :D
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: Nemisis on August 27, 2009, 05:57:43 PM
  I concede that was the intent but it may result in 0 torpedo's getting fired as the PT will lose favor.
Avoiding the PT spawns was the solution of 100 per minute. CV captains now have one less threat as most enemy will re-up fairly quickly and try something else.


Well they could always make it so you can't fire more torpedos untill your previous ones have detonated or ran outa steam.
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: AWwrgwy on August 27, 2009, 06:55:07 PM
McHale's Navy sank hundreds over a 4 season run.  :D

Really?  I don't remember them sinking much.  If anything, IIRC, it was submarines.  Depth Charges as much as torpedoes.


wrongway
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: Boxman on August 27, 2009, 07:57:37 PM
aNYone know what the "torpedoe's" were referring to in the original saying?
Title: Re: Damn the TORPEDOES!
Post by: Lusche on August 27, 2009, 08:07:33 PM
aNYone know what the "torpedoe's" were referring to in the original saying?

Mines.

To be more precise: The naval mines laid in Mobile Bay, in 1864