Very interesting link, thanks a lot :yeah:

And I have slowly come around to your view that magnetics work at about AOB 90, though your torpedo should be set to the slowest speed. And they do seem to cause the most damage at a much narrower angle. Difference in depth, though seems to be the most significant factor.

One thing players often forget is that all magnetics are ALSO impacts. By making the switch to impact, you take away (I am told) the dice roll that might lead your mag-set torpedo to prematurely explode. You also can do it a second before you launch, which is obviously not right.

I am sure some of the historians can offer advice here. For now, I set all tubes to magnetic, since I can use them either way, and take my chances on the prematures.

I Have found on a couple occasions that having the eels run too fast and too deep caused them to detonate on the far side of the target, which did result in confusing the merchants in the convoy. Upon the detonations, they started searching with their search lights in the opposite direction. I'm not sure if the escorts werre confused or not, but they did not jump on me right away. Then again, it was probably early war and they may not have found me any ways.

But to be honest, it is not a tactic I recommend, as the risk of missing completely is too high, and the reduced damage from such an hit doesnt seem to be worth it. Perhaps if one were to be able to land a few crippling shots on some big targets and have them drop out of formation, and the misdirection allows for easier evasion and subsequent reload, then it may be worth it, but that's still a lot of if's.

I must notice Sailor Steve spoke a nonsence on this topic :) If you ever read the document yourself Mister, you should know that in page 51 there is following text:


pistols using the Schalterstellung A option were to use only the AZ option until further notice.

So literrraly speaking this was very short period of time - The first MONTH of the war during which U-boats could not switch pistols AZ-MZ and vice versa :O:

However I must admit I would never realized the mass of malfunctioned torpedoes Kriegsmarine had especially with MZ pistol without this document.

Perhaps H.sie was right while introducing his torpedo fix. On the other hand I never trust MZ pistol in early war anyway.

After reading it all I might reconsider using that fix.

Fair enough. I missed that part, and I don't mind admitting when I'm wrong.

On the other hand, there is no need for this kind of rudeness:

Attack ? :haha: Are you on nervous exhaustion ? Nonsence is nonsence, that's all.

So just to let you know.
Even if I tried, I couldn't care less how you take it :shucks:

I made a mistake. I admitted it. Exactly how is a mistake nonsense? You started in on me in your first post, being rude rather than polite. Your dismissive use of the phrase "if you ever read the document yourself mister" is a prime example of the way you do these things. How I take it is irrelevant. It was this kind of behaviour that got you brigged last time.

Please act like a gentleman with respect to other members on this board.

See Steve?
rudeness is very annoying thing when happening ,no matter who has the right or not.

I'm well aware of that, and, as I told you privately, I try to stay on top of it.

On that subject, the person you were upset about has buried the hatchet and is playing nicely now. He also admitted that much of it was his fault, so things are better on that frontier.

:Kaleun_Salute:

You admitted it because you had no other option. Frankly speaking I think you didin't even read it all aren't you ? =]

But no you just can't backdown peacefully even when you are wrong, without escalating things to outside matters! :-?


Those following gripes of yours I take as insignifical attempt to draw attention to yourself as being a poor victim of my rudiness or impoliteness ? :haha: Just because I put your statement into nonsense ?
Oh man, can all of this stuff you take everywhere with you be more childish ? Knowing your age, your acting makes fun of you realy :)

Hi,

IIRC, the pistol could not be changed when the torpedo was inside the tube. In this respect SH3 is wrong.

BTW, PapaKilo, some time ago I posted a link to the document in h.sie's thread and asked you to read it

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=2567

Maybe you should have read it back then before attacking h.sie's work.

Cheers, LGN1

IIRC the argue was about how many duds in total % Kriegsmarine had, and how should this number be divided to every uboat. You and H.sie stated it was around 30 % of all torps that malfunctioned, I stated it was 50 % according to documentary source I gave a name of. Nevertheless I never was into such close readings about torpedo malfunctions as I am now.

IIRC you gave me the link to german languaged document that I don't understand ?

Can we steer away from the realm of insults toward community members please?

I'm in no way taking sides but let us agree to disagree without resorting to name calling and innuendo.

TIA