Against carriers, the Dick O'Kane technique is absolutely accurate and deadly from 2500 to 3000 yards. I don't recommend 3000 yards as a fair percentage of your torpedoes will shut down before reaching the target.
If you don't like the 90º angle to the track, then using the vector analysis method will give you the correct lead angle for any approach angle to the track. Again, I'd be 2000 to 2500 yards out, torpedoes on high speed for greatest accuracy.
With the Cromwell method you have a MUCH greater chance of the target seeing the torpedoes and avoiding. I'd not use a longitudinal spread here. I'd shoot stern, MOT, bow in that order to get a divergent spread, less likely to be avoided.
I haven't updated Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks yet. There is a bug in the forum software that isn't letting me edit any of my posts in that thread for some reason. When it's working again, I'll make the addition to the first post, which contains all the links.
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