The largest consideration for me was angle on the bow. If I was shooting at a ship not 90 degrees to me, I'd use a magnetic shot so that it would explode.
Magnetics don't work well in high seas - they prematurely detonate.
Now that I am doing manual targetting with the fixed-wire method, the only shots I know how to take are 90 degree.
Still, I have "guestimated" magnetic shots at circling escorts by playing with the knobs on the TDC until I have a good lead on the god-mode contact udpate. Without map updates that would not work, though, so it's kind of cheating.
When shooting at stationary ships (harbor raiding) sometimes you have to use magnetics to hit ships sitting in slips.
I have, with magnetics, even with manual targetting, nailed escorts chasing me at 180 degrees.
Steve
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