Is this a bug...

[Murr44]

It's November 1940 & Oblt. z See Hermann Rausch (U-69) is the the middle of patrol # 3. He just hit an 11,000+ ton Large Merchant in BF13 with one T1 set with a magnetic fuse. It exploded almost right under the bow. His weapons officer reported that the torpedo had missed but 1-2 seconds later reported "she's going down". Sure enough, she was going down.:up:

Does anyone else experience this? Mind you, he's not complaining about getting the merchant. 5 hours earlier he'd been driven off a convoy by a pair of Hunt I class destroyers.:damn:

Playing with GWX 2.1, SH3 Cmdr 3.13 & a few other GWX compatible mods.

[onelifecrisis]

Yeah, occasionally magnetic hits/misses are not correctly assessed by your WE.

[Murr44]

Yeah, occasionally magnetic hits/misses are not correctly assessed by your WE.

That explains it. I've often wondered about this in the past but never got around to asking about it until now.

Thanks.:)

[Rommer69]

Once happened the same to me, I engaged a destroyer, fire a magnetic fuse torp and officer informed: Torpedo miss; I fired another one just to realize it would hit in a sinking ship:damn: . I did not confirmed the miss through the periscope!

[Brag]

Magnetic torps fired with an AOB close to 90, will often explode on the other side after having gone under the ship. Usually close enough to cause damage.

[DanFraser]

I've been at an odd angle shooting at a docked ship, so the spread I fired had one torp hitting a few seconds before the clock, and one a few seconds after. Just long enough for the WO to think the second one had missed because it took too long!