ok, I guess I should have just said it changes all the TMO difficulty settings


I trying to recall all this just from memory and it has been quite a while

Stock I would agree that Mark 14 is less effective because the devs had some hair brained gamey idea to make the newer torpedoes have more of a bunch.I remember the Mark 23 having a big difference over the 14 lol.TMO corrected this, Mark 18's have less of a punch since smaller warhead than Mark 14.Mark 23 is the same as Mark 14 in TMO. Shot placement does matter in TMO, esp if run the longer sinking times mod with it but even without, a hit under the stack will usually wreck the engines, cause boilers to explode.With merchants their cargo also matters, if tanker is loaded with fuel or if merchant has ammo crates on deck or internal ammo, this accounts for how many fish it takes as well.Large merchant with internal and external cargo of freight only, usually 3-4 torpedoes required to ensure a kill, of course variables such as skill of the crew, where they hit etc affects this.Skill of the vessel you are attacking also matters.TMO most warships and merchants are set to veteran.Stock, they are set to novice in most cases, few are set to competent and then in later years few are vet and even less are elite.

Yamato took a lot of punishment in real life and can in the game but again factors matter.I have it set to "veteran" skill level and running the longer sinking times which sinks ships based on flooding and bulkhead damage not hitpoints.Also run the fire damage mod, so fires actually damage ships internally and externally.I think this accounts for differences. Surprised 9 Mark 18's did the job on the Yamato. I hit a Ise (Late War) version with 6 in november 1944 and it made her go dead in water and bad list, but didnt sink.Unfortunately, in the counter attack my sub was nearly destroyed, all torpedo tubes destroyed, stuck on the bottom for about 8 hours so never got to give the coup de grace.

Using Silent 3ditor you can open the Torpedo_US.Zon file which has the min and max damage values for the USN torpedoes. I have examined the stock, GFO and TMO versions and neither of the mods have changed those values. In those files the min and max damage values are:

mk27 50-100
mk10 80-160
mk14 100-140
mk16 180-350
mk18 120-180
mk23 120-180

I have been tweaking the values for the mk27 trying to simulate the mk28 and yes it does work. In real life the warheads between the mk14, mk18 and mk23 were interchangeable and were often swapped out on tenders and at depots.

Hmm ill have to look at what the longer sinking times mod does to torpedoes hit points, because mark 14 and 23 do seem to have same power, 18 less.I've played with the mod so long but it seemed same as TMO. Definitely should be changed then as the 14 and 23 were same torpedo, the 18 carried a slightly smaller warhead.16 had almost 1000 lbs of torpex, they work very well in the same.The Mark 10 still seems to have a nice punch, the cutie is so so, depends on ship, think could use little more.Noticed you are working on Mark 28, that sounds like fun.