Yeah, that is important. In that thread about the german fish, it was surprising, but regardless of the actual amount of explosive in the german fish, the mk14 sank 7k ton ships at a MUCH higher rate with a single hit than german torpedoes in 1944. Like 18% 1 hit sinkings for germans vs 69% for the mk14.
Torpex was a very good explosive, and apparently MUCH better than hexanite based on the stats (I combed all 1944 Liberty ship sinking narratives at uboats.net and compared them to 7k ship sinkings in the PTO for the entire war—confirmed sinkings by japanese records with a specific ship name for each attack, and I went all the way up to 7999tons). The trouble with the mk14 was never the warhead, it was the detonator.
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