A little research...

[onelifecrisis]

Your time is appreciated! :up:

Edit: Ummm... you can stop voting now. :p ;) j/k

[Dowly]

Always fire a salvo. :up:

[mic1184]

always a salvo with a small angle -> hit nearly everytime with all fired torpedoes :D

[denis_469]

On depend on... situation.

[JCWolf]

Since the number of Torp. is rather limited,
you have to treate them as Gold, having a
torp. can as well be the diference betwin
surviving or not a situation, so since I think
and plan carefully n attack to any ship in a
convoy I have allways a chance of making my first
strick as destructive and powerfull as possible,
so firing torp by torp to various ships with
the diference of minutes I can this way hit
more ships in the first strick and then hide
for later to finish the job I have started!:yep:


The salvo its usefull however if you strick
a capital ship !:hmm:

but that is very rare to encounter!

[d@rk51d3]

Salvo on large warships. Otherwise I like to pick my point of impact.

[TarJak]

I use the 10 second rule and fire individually.

[Huskalar]

Salvo on large warships. Otherwise I like to pick my point of impact. The same for me. :up:

[dcb]

Any ship bigger than a C2 gets a salvo of 2 eels at a spread angle of 3-5 degrees, about 800-1000 meters ideally.
If it does not sink, the third fish leaves alone. No second salvo on the same ship.

[Woof1701]

Almost always I fire a salvo. Unless of course that salvo would fire a mixture of steam and electric torpedoes. Then I'd fire seperately.

[Jimbuna]

Depends on each individual situation.....but one at a time usually :arrgh!:

[lutzow]

Always single torpedo.

[Sailor Steve]

Do-it-yourselfer here; one at a time.:sunny:

[melnibonian]

Salvo for large ships one by one for smaller ones. I don't want to waste a torpedo on a doomed target ;)

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

Always single torpedo.

same here

[Canovaro]

I don't use the periscope-tdc knob, I always leave it off. So I let the target come to me. Than I fire one by one as it sails past my crosshair.

[Wolfehunter]

Since the number of Torp. is rather limited,
you have to treate them as Gold, having a
torp. can as well be the diference betwin
surviving or not a situation, so since I think
and plan carefully n attack to any ship in a
convoy I have allways a chance of making my first
strick as destructive and powerfull as possible,
so firing torp by torp to various ships with
the diference of minutes I can this way hit
more ships in the first strick and then hide
for later to finish the job I have started!:yep:


The salvo its usefull however if you strick
a capital ship !:hmm:

but that is very rare to encounter!

I agree. Torpedos is too valuable. If I could sink a ship using the flakgun I would. :nope:

I fire one torpedo at a time. I hit biggest targets first and watch them lag behind the convoi then finished them off! :up: If I have extra I repeat it again.;)

[Kpt, Otto]

I only fire a salvo when a large vessel needs a crack on the jaw and when an escort is sniffing around. That way I can escape safe in the knowledge that she is sunk.

Most of the time however this is not needed and so I rarely use torpedoes in salvo prefering to look at the results of one torpedo hit before launching another.

With only six torpedoes on board our type II each one is valuable. So far I have not had a situation where I have needed to use the ten second rule. :hmm:

[Mast]

Single torp for me...they are too precious. :up: An I usually sink a ship with one torp.

Mast

[Adriatico]

Single...one by one.

[coronas]

Depend on situation, target, distance, .....Usually single, for very big ships, salvo

[Pants]

Like most here, it depends on the situation really

[TheDarkWraith]

if single ship then it's single torp aiming for 'back-breaker' spot to cause the splinter_explosion. If convoy then it's single torp for rear of ship to disable it (break off prop, jam rudder, disable propulsion system) so that I can pick it off later (makes for much less shorter waiting time to pick off!)

[looney]

Useally single, this afternoon I pressed salvo by misstake fired all four tubes at once. Luckily I fired at a convoy so I still managed 3 sinkings 1 torp missed.

[Water boy]

Later in campaign for larger ships salvo, 2 torps only, 2.5 - 3 degree spread, range 500 metres 1 metre below keel depth.
Early on same except 4/5 metre depth on impact setting.
Usually always on/near 90 degrees but will fire below keel shots at greater angles.
Rarely take 'aimed' shots manually tending to use the green TDC marker but thats about to change, seen too many larger ships keep going so will try for engine rooms/propulsion in future.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Depends upon the situation.


RDP

[U49]

My general engagement is one torpedo per target.
A special exception are fast and big targets like carriers or battleships. The firing position is usually not the best and not achievable again and they need more than one hit anyway.
In such salvos i prefer 3 torpedos on the target, 1 stern shot if I sense a miss and the last bow torpedo left for self defense or the more aggressive
shoot - dive under target - turn - shoot - dive deep and evade

[Siara]

Almost exclusively one by one, usualy start with electric, followed up by steam 10 sec later. For merchants range is up to 1000 m. That way i score hit with stealth electric just before the steam reaches the target. It is useful for daylight conditions. If i opt for impact ignition i set the depth less than 50 % of the ships kil depth- dictated by the curvature of the hull.

[The Munster]

On depend on... situation.

Same here :up:

[Bosk]

I fire one at a time because I like to expend 2 torpedoes on each target and I don't think there's a salvo option for just 2 instead of 3.
I find targets usually sink after 2 hits, and sending out a 3rd torpedo that's not required seems like a waste. (I can always fire it later as a coup de grace)

Salvo's are really nice when I come to periscope depth in the middle of a convoy, just before I get the hell outta there.

[Uber Gruber]

I fire one at a time because I like to expend 2 torpedoes on each target and I don't think there's a salvo option for just 2 instead of 3.
There most certainly is sir, play with the salvo dial and al shall be revealed.

[Letum]

Usualy a salvo of 2, but manualy makeing the salvo angle
One 1/4 way along the ship and one 3/4 along.

My targeting just isn't good enough to fire one.

[NiclDoe]

Depends on the target we are talking about. If is small I send Bernard after it with some TNT and he will swim back after every ship he sinks.

[PapaG39]

I'm new at this and I got a lot of single torpedo kills on small freighters and even C2's with the standard Sh3 1.4b setup. Now since GWX I can't even get a small freighter to take the plunge on a single torpedo. they just keep right on going to port like nothing even happened. so I just started shooting two in a salvo. Even at that they just sit there for 5-10 or even 20 minutes before they sink.
I don't do the manual thing I use the little green triangle for shooting. I have noticed though that I can not hit in the bow of the ship. The first one is just forward of ship center & the second torp is just aft of center.
Using the green thingie how can I put a torp in the bow? I have tried shooting just as it turns green (turn the tdc off then fire) but they all hit in the same place.
I have tried different spread angle percentages & found that if you use to much the second one will just miss past the stern.

I usually have been shooting between 350m and 500m a few times as far out at 1000m, but not normally. Once, When I shot at a convoy, I shot a salvo of two at 5550m & sunk a large cargo. but it took about 25-30 actual minutes for it to sink...

[Jimbuna]

I usually have been shooting between 350m and 500m a few times as far out at 1000m, but not normally. Once, When I shot at a convoy, I shot a salvo of two at 5550m & sunk a large cargo. but it took about 25-30 actual minutes for it to sink...

There's nothing unusual in that :nope:
The sinking time in particular relationship to flooding can deviate significantly :yep:

[PapaG39]

Yes jimbuna, I understand that. However, I have not had one single ship just blow up and sink. Out of more the 20 small ships, or large ships for that matter, not one ship did anything but chug along for a few hundred meters & then some of them stopped & eventually most of them sunk. None of them blewup like ships I have seen on actual WWII footage...NOT ONE!

Oppps, I take that back...The one Hunter I class that I torpedoed blew in two just like a real ship would do. It was refreshing to see fire & things blowing up for a change..

All of the ships that I have sunk finely blew up after they were settling under the water... Kinda like an afterthought because up until the point of sinking they didn't even show a puff of smoke or even a tiny flame.

Perhaps it is my fault...I'm not hitting them in the right spot...ha ha..at least I'm 100% at that then..

[Jimbuna]

Press on....I'm 100% confident you will see ships explode before long :up: