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Originally Posted by Frumpkis
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."
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Yeah. Those Mark 14's... from historical accounts i've read, any sea water on those finicky fish, and the torpedomen would be given them an overhaul. You only opened the outer door before you were ready to fire. You didn't sit with that fish in a flooded tube for very long. The longer it was flooded, the greater the chance it would result in a dud, or erratic behavior - or so ran the school of thought at the time.
At any rate, to open an outer door and have it NOT close while selecting another tube to open, it was some editing in the commands.cfg file that accomplished this, though it was a LONG time ago, so i dont remember the exact details of the edit.