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Originally Posted by groomsie
For that time period my understanding is you can drop dud rate by:
- Using contact detonator only (address prematures, and rough seas makes worse).
- Use slow speed if you can
- Set for shallowest possible depth (~3' in game, IIRC in RL they set for 0').
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Good advice. If only the real skippers could have taken it. Their problem was that at first they had no idea what was happening. All they knew was that something was wrong, and when they tried to tell their bosses (Admiral English at Pearl Harbor and especially Admiral Christie in Australia) they were told to stop making excuses for poor shooting. It wasn't until Admiral Lockwood replaced English that something was done.
Here's a good recounting of the whole sordid tale:
http://www.historynet.com/us-torpedo...rld-war-ii.htm