Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-26154973-20190730112628/@comment-26082284-20190730140953

AnimeFreak40K wrote: Okay, on one hand this is good; there is now some equipment that can be used in the same role/purpose as the WG42 and it is assumed that it will be generally easier to acquire than the WG42.

...on the other hand... Infantry siege weapons as anti-submarine equipment. What?

Look, I get it, not all the gear makes sense at times... but this one ranks near the top of the 'WTF' factor. Well, yes and no. Or rather no and yes.

There's a bit of historical rationale behind it - and theory is somewhat sound - fast sinking, contact-fuzed projectile even as small as 120mm could sink a sub. After all, Hedgehog is basically an ASDIC triggered bunch of spigot mortars working exactly on this principle. But that's theory. Hedgehog was automated and launched a whole pattern of projectiles at the same time. Manually targetted mortar would have neither accuracy nor density of fire neccessary to have any chance of hitting submarine, unless it was surfaced. That +3 ASW stat is very optimistic.

But mortars (and other artillery) were historically used as ASW weapons (usually as shore batteries), though as far as I know without any significant success.