Depth charges on fleet

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For what are the depth charges if there is no submarines???

[Hotschi48]

They explode nicely when hit. I never carry them on the ships.

[Futuristic Hexagon]

Originally posted by Hans Bocharov:

For what are the depth charges if there is no submarines???

On maps with more shallow water, they can be a nasty surprise from what I remmeber.

I also recall they can be used as a CM against torps.

[ha_ur_dead]

I’ve killed a plane with them in World war mode.

[CyberStonka]

Originally posted by Hans Bocharov:

For what are the depth charges if there is no submarines???

You can use them to attack regular vessels.

[A Glorious Squash]

Originally posted by CyberStonka:

Originally posted by Hans Bocharov:

For what are the depth charges if there is no submarines???

You can use them to attack regular vessels.

?? Since when did depth charges affect surface vessels

[Darkdan777]

Originally posted by Hans Bocharov:

For what are the depth charges if there is no submarines???

Same reason they've left NVGs on tanks below 10.0 but made night battle at 10.0+ only, so at this point you're not going to use NVGs but thermals at this BR on most tanks

[CyberStonka]

Originally posted by French Cat:

Originally posted by CyberStonka:

You can use them to attack regular vessels.

?? Since when did depth charges affect surface vessels

Since beginning?

[Eftwyrd]

Originally posted by French Cat:

Originally posted by CyberStonka:

You can use them to attack regular vessels.

?? Since when did depth charges affect surface vessels

there is a reason ships deploying depth charges typically have a minimum safe speed you do not want to go below lest you be caught by your own ordinance

For those not aware because of the incompressibility of water explosions are significantly more powerful. This combined with a little something called the bubble jet effect (look it up) makes an explosion below your hull extremely dangerous

One of my most humiliating deaths in a cruiser was when I let a coastal boat get too close I could no longer lower my guns enough to shoot it and he dropped depth charges all down my side

To be clear I’m not certain the bubble jet effect is actually modelled but depth charges are certainly lethal enough

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Originally posted by Eftwyrd:

Originally posted by French Cat:

?? Since when did depth charges affect surface vessels

there is a reason ships deploying depth charges typically have a minimum safe speed you do not want to go below lest you be caught by your own ordinance

For those not aware because of the incompressibility of water explosions are significantly more powerful. This combined with a little something called the bubble jet effect (look it up) makes an explosion below your hull extremely dangerous

One of my most humiliating deaths in a cruiser was when I let a coastal boat get too close I could no longer lower my guns enough to shoot it and he dropped depth charges all down my side

To be clear I’m not certain the bubble jet effect is actually modelled but depth charges are certainly lethal enough

propeller suction

[A Glorious Squash]

Originally posted by Eftwyrd:

Originally posted by French Cat:

?? Since when did depth charges affect surface vessels

there is a reason ships deploying depth charges typically have a minimum safe speed you do not want to go below lest you be caught by your own ordinance

For those not aware because of the incompressibility of water explosions are significantly more powerful. This combined with a little something called the bubble jet effect (look it up) makes an explosion below your hull extremely dangerous

One of my most humiliating deaths in a cruiser was when I let a coastal boat get too close I could no longer lower my guns enough to shoot it and he dropped depth charges all down my side

To be clear I’m not certain the bubble jet effect is actually modelled but depth charges are certainly lethal enough

Wish they always are. I’ve only killed one surface target with “depth charges” and the damage cam only showed little pieces of shrapnel barely make a dent in the hull, the flooding though from the torpedoes I used did something though.

[Hotschi48]

Same as mines, these depth charges are so dependent on the situation that 9 out of 10 times they're just a danger to ownship.