How to sunk Royal Oak?

[Falconpolat]

Even 4 torpedo won't sink him out reloading torpedos taking so much time and enemy ships keep detecting me im stuck in that mission

[Mouse Rat]

You can sink it with 4. Sometimes in testing died to 3..
Usually shoot on 3m of depth for the tops and sling them from afar.
Do you have a screen shot or some video to see what is wrong? Or potentially improved?

[Falconpolat]

depth is 1.5m is it too low? and disperse is around 20-30m

[Andi]

I usually set them to 6.5 and 3 eels are enough to sink it most of the times.
Although, I'm stuck in scapa too currently.
Royal Oak is on the sea bed already but no chance to get away from those pesky destroyers no matter what I try.
I played that mission countless times, something definitely changed.

[Falconpolat]

Originally posted by Andi:

I usually set them to 6.5 and 3 eels are enough to sink it most of the times.
Although, I'm stuck in scapa too currently.
Royal Oak is on the sea bed already but no chance to get away from those pesky destroyers no matter what I try.
I played that mission countless times, something definitely changed.

lol even if i take it out im unable to escape destroyers and water is not deep

[dbond1]

In the beta I did this mission, put the battleship under and had a harrowing submerged escape through a swarm of escorts.

In the release version I did the entire thing on the surface and saw one warship (other than 'Royal Oak' and a jeep carrier moored just beyond). Slipped past that destroyer at the eastern exit and made our escape at full beans.

Super lucky, but this cannot happen only for me. Someone else will get the same perfect setup.

FWIW between the two attempts the location of 'Royal Oak' was different. First one more to the east, second one more to the north of the anchorage.

[Timur]

Originally posted by Falconpolat:

depth is 1.5m is it too low? and disperse is around 20-30m

Not sure how well the armor is simulated, but that would hit her right at her belt armor. Setting them deeper to 6 or 7 meters might yield better results.

Originally posted by dbond1:

In the beta I did this mission, put the battleship under and had a harrowing submerged escape through a swarm of escorts.

In the release version I did the entire thing on the surface and saw one warship (other than 'Royal Oak' and a jeep carrier moored just beyond). Slipped past that destroyer at the eastern exit and made our escape at full beans.

Super lucky, but this cannot happen only for me. Someone else will get the same perfect setup.

FWIW between the two attempts the location of 'Royal Oak' was different. First one more to the east, second one more to the north of the anchorage.

I had the same setup, but I'm only playing on medium difficulty to begin with, since it is my first career. So maybe that plays a part, but I got never even hunted at all.

[Ax4711]

Magnetic detonator and set depth to 1m below for the most damage. You don't want to attack a battleship where its armor is the fattest.

Also, you might already have a ship engineer who can give some extra % to torpedo damage.

[Mouse Rat]

Originally posted by Falconpolat:

Originally posted by Andi:

I usually set them to 6.5 and 3 eels are enough to sink it most of the times.
Although, I'm stuck in scapa too currently.
Royal Oak is on the sea bed already but no chance to get away from those pesky destroyers no matter what I try.
I played that mission countless times, something definitely changed.

lol even if i take it out im unable to escape destroyers and water is not deep

i usually snipe it from 5km+ , shooting on bearing since speed 0 and then sitting on the sea bed. blue , silence.
The destroyers usually calm down before i run out of oxygen.

[Falconpolat]

Also sometimes torpedos won't explode is it always caused by lack of maintaince?

and weather is too foggy, attacking from far distances seems not possible

[dbond1]

It is possible even if your crew is outside of clear sight range. Just do manual shot. Set speed to zero. Range and AoB can be any value since the torpedo will go straight out on the scope bearing. All you gotta do is ensure your torpedoes can travel that far. You should be able to sink it with T2 electrics from 5000 meters, T1 steamers even father with slow speed.

[Catastrophy]

1. Save game
2. Hit ship with torpedoes.
3. Reload if no luck.
Don't use TC when torpedoes are about to hit.

[Marius]

I sunk it with 3 torps from my IIA. Had no desire to reload in Scapa.
Spread them out over the full length of the ship, depth around 7m, I think.
Then full silent running, put my sub on the seabed and waited for the DDs to calm down before sneaking out the way I came in. Had to surface once because I got stuck in a net...

[Mouse Rat]

Here is a long range attack on the ship behind the Oak .. the pegasus,
but same thing should apply.. you can shoot at either.
Sometimes the ship fights against the currents/water motion and the slight chances in relative bearing can make huge shifts 5-6km away.
Make sure you are as deep as possible while still being able to shoot.
Otherwise is just heat up the torps and send them.

https://youtu.be/IdSsATKOkhg

[ShellacMaster78]

Guess I got lucky, because I sank the thing with 2 torps. Very close range, all calculations auto. Night time and foggy. Destroyers didn't even care

[Glock Fawty]

I dunno why Scapa Flow is so shallow in UBOAT....

IRL the battleship HMS Royal Oak shipwreck lies upside down where she was torpedoed in water 100 feet (30 meters) deep. The highest point of the ship is 16 feet (5 meters) below the surface of Scapa Flow.

In-game Scapa Flow is so shallow that when you "sink" the Royal Oak the waterline doesn't even reach the deck.