User blog:Leader1623/Torpedo Frigate AWESOME!!

(This is meant to be an entertaining account of a player learning how to fight with what is essentially a torpedo boat, even though it was actually larger than many of its enemies, even if it was faster, more maneuverable, and barely armed.)

So after a few matches with my super-warship Defiant on WSC GC, I decided to take my little frigate Faithful for a spin. Literally. The things has huge acceleration, 195 kn top speed, and has extreme maneuverabilty being able to turn within three times its own width while maintaining over 100 kn. Its a trimaran hull with 1 main hull and 2 outriggers.

I started out the day with 2 mk45s, 5 AA, 1 depth charge, and 1 gas turbine engine. After a few matches against some big ships I decided I needed some more firepower, so I got 10 torpedo tube As and mounted them facing forwards in a nice spread for some cheap BOOM!

After a match against an aircraft carrier that went badly, I decided the blitz head-on approach relying just on speed and luck was not the best. My engine got knocked out, so I was unable to maneuver. Meanwhile the enemy aircraft landed at least 20 hits on my frigate but a stability of 430 kept me afloat. After 15 minutes we both disconnected.

From then on I followed a more oblique approach. Speed 45 degress across the enemy's bow as soon as the match starts. Any aircraft will lag behind me, and enemy shells will miss. At around 6-7 km I curve around for an attack run on the enemy's flank. FIRE TORPEDOS! RAAAMING SPEED! We collide, my torpedos instantly sink my enemy, I go flying through the air...and flip upside down. I lose. Shame too because I'd dodged 5 bombs, 3 torpedos, and survived 3 hits without getting my engine knocked out during the approach.

Okay so I decided: No more Ramming. From now on I would launch torpedos at around 1 km then break off before collission. I tried again, but the enemy this time had torpedos of their own. My engine got blasted again, so I was unable to maneuver. Somehow I managed to win that match with 1 MK45 vs countless 30.5s, but barely. I then decided to add a float-torpedo shield across the frontal arc of my frigate at a distance of 60 meters. Voila! Perfection achieved.

Now with the culmination of all of the above, I am invincible in my beloved FF-17 Faithful! I gotta say I love this torpedo frigating business a lot more than aviation battleshiping my enemies to death!