destroyers main weapons are… torpedoes, sometimes depth charges, but mostly torpedoes…
The Japanese did sink a lot of ships with their destroyers’ torpedoes
22 Allied ships were wholely or partly attributed to Long Lance hits, about 1 every 2 months.
What was equally significant though was the number disabled by hits but not lost. They proved more than capable of blowing off entire bows or sterns, or causing total destruction of machinery spaces. Basically with such a large warhead theres was little chance of suffering only ‘minor’ damage and a ship out of commission for months of repairs in wartime can be equally as valuable as a sinking.
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Impressive!
Check out USS Selfridge for what even a non-fatal LL hit could do to a large DD. Everything forward of the bridge was destroyed and its a miracle of damage control she survived at all.
Keeping it on topic, this is why Shimakaze is at a higher BR than her hull and guns really deserve. LL torpedos will make a mess!
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That’s really impressive, both the power of the LL and the capabilities of the damage control team!
This and the way those Japanese DDs look is why they’re my favourites.
I mean ask the mogami what happens when you combine long lances and japanese transports
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If OP wants to play with ROF and powerfull guns would be much better to use any of the cruisers in the line, hell japan had Kako at 4.7 until the decompression, the lowest br Heavy cruiser in the game, used to eat hippers for breakfast
Yeah, the Japanese cruisers are really fun to play. Plus you get sea planes to cap points.
Yup. It’s that warhead and the range. Sometimes you even write your torpedos off as having missed, but they were on target the whole time and take down ships upwards of 10-15minutes of you having launched them. One from the other night:
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Most likely. It probably has largest amount of torpedoes and best ropedoes at the same time.
I remember spawning this in Convoy mode and sneak along the edge of the map to get visual on tankers. Then I destryoed like 10 of them and drained almost all tickets of enemy team. (Closest thing to submarine we got lol!)
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