RoaldLarsen explained everything well. But i just want to make sure we are all talking about the same thing. Columns are ships sailing behind eachother, and rows are ships next to eachother. Do you guys agree?
If you wanted to fire at say 3 ships in the same column the middle one would be almost in front of you, and the others quite far to the right and left. Especially if it is the collumn right in front of you. Then gyro angles for those 2 is very big and range becomes important. It is very difficult to time the moments to fire to make them hit at the same time. The front target 'sees' the torpedo approach slower, while the rear target would 'see' the torpedo approach faster, requiring different firing delays. I would attempt multiple attacks, focussing on one row at a time, using that fast-90/0-gyro angle attack. And don't attempt to shoot through a collumn trying to hit a target in the next column and a row back. Most likely another ship get's in the way of the torpedo and perform a 'bodyguard' action. Probably a lousy tramp steamer.
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