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Originally Posted by Jan Kyster
In real life you had people to do the job, so as a commander you could most certainly yell out a "Open all tubes!"  |
Not from what I've read in the war memoirs, at least not an "open all tubes command."
The captain would yell "Open tubes 1, 2, and 3," or whatever he was absolutely sure was going to be used in the attack. Using tube numbers in the command immediately tells the crew whether it's a bow or stern attack (or both). "Open all tubes" is just a wee bit ambiguous. It does take time to do it in SH4 one at a time, but unless it's a panic situation, there should be plenty of time to set up an attack and open the tubes you need.
Also, for those role-playing for realism.... you'd never actually open all tubes at once unless it was a middle-of-the-convoy attack and you were going to empty both ends of the boat. In real life, flooding a tube was serious business with consequences for maintenance after the attack. If the tube wasn't actually fired, it had to be pumped out using compressed air you might need for other things. The torpedo had to be removed and the tube greased by hand to avoid corrosion. You'd never open a tube "just in case."
I know that not everybody uses a historical approach, and the game has no penalty for opening and closing tubes. At least the requirement to do it one at a time, gets a little closer to the reality.