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Aquitaine · 01-22-09, 04:43 PM

Sorry to resurrect this thread...

I'm having a similar problem with minesweepers. My last patrol, I sank 9 (!) destroyers, one after the other (and then chased down some juicy convoys) but two minesweepers, one in two different escort groups, gave me no end of trouble. Manual targeting, auto targeting, setting depth as shallow as possible, my torps would go right underneath them - bow, stern, middle, doesn't matter. Maybe one out of ten tries I'd actually get one to explode.

These are US Mk14 torps, RSRDC, but no other mods. I'm not missing, I just can't get the buggers to explode. Below 300 yards I usually figure I don't have enough time in the water for a torp to arm itself, but I've got one now at 500 yards with a decent AOB, and still no dice - slow torp, fast torp, doesn't matter.

Am I missing something?

01-22-09, 04:43 PM	#3
Aquitaine Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 9 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Sorry to resurrect this thread... I'm having a similar problem with minesweepers. My last patrol, I sank 9 (!) destroyers, one after the other (and then chased down some juicy convoys) but two minesweepers, one in two different escort groups, gave me no end of trouble. Manual targeting, auto targeting, setting depth as shallow as possible, my torps would go right underneath them - bow, stern, middle, doesn't matter. Maybe one out of ten tries I'd actually get one to explode. These are US Mk14 torps, RSRDC, but no other mods. I'm not missing, I just can't get the buggers to explode. Below 300 yards I usually figure I don't have enough time in the water for a torp to arm itself, but I've got one now at 500 yards with a decent AOB, and still no dice - slow torp, fast torp, doesn't matter. Am I missing something?