Depth Charges

[Desertfox]

Wait... Depth Charges aren't considered armament?

[Kaiser Kirk]

Wait... Depth Charges aren't considered armament? 

Hmm, going back and searching around, it seems early on I was calling DCs armaments, and then I ceased.

I think that was part of the Hydrophone / ASW evolution and then adoption.
At which point I at least thought they had been carved out with an eye to allowing subchaser/asw trawlers as part of that discussion

I seem to have created confusion as a result.

I will try find some time to go back and hunt through things and see if my recollection is right or wrong.

Other are free to correct me as well.

[The Rock Doctor]

I'd been treating them as armament.

I'm not sure I've always done the same with mines, though.

[Kaiser Kirk]

I may be mis-remembering on DCs.
Just need some time.

I've always treated mines as weapons.

[Kaiser Kirk]

ok it's my memory screwing up.


I designed the PS-1 Patrol craft just after the ASW rules
and I was certainly counting the ASW DCs as armanent.

Mercantile
600t x 0.02 = 12

-4.4 guns
-.5  Firecontrol
=7 tons for ASW weapons.

1t ASW Kite
6t 30x 195kg DCs
= 7 tons ASW weapons

Miscellaneous Weights :
AD :
25t LR radio
0.5t FC
25t Kite Balloon

OD :
1t : ASW Kites
6t : 30x 195kg DC.
25t Minesweeping gear

HAW:
45t Miscellaneous Cargo
3t  CO2 compessor AC

Hull below water:
15t "Enhanced Hydrophone Package".
35t  Turbo-electric generators
10t  Batteries

[The Rock Doctor]

I'd been treating them as armament.

I'm not sure I've always done the same with mines, though.

Okay, so I'm good there.  Previous mine warfare ships have all been built as "mil spec" rather than auxiliaries.