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Originally Posted by Laconic
Set the pistol to contact and shoot them on the lower speed setting; that should improve reliability. Or, better yet, use Mk 10 torpedoes...duds are rare, though you'll have to get close enough to start a knife fight. I'll generally skip Mk 14's all together and move on to the electric fish once they're available.
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My current run with a Porpoise, that's pretty much what I've been doing. Using Mk10s over Mk14s. Haven't gotten to electrics yet. My first patrol was exceptionally painful. 2/3rds of the torpedos were duds. I watched 8 torpedos literally bounce off 2 different Kongos in the same convoy and just sail off. The only thing that made it bearable is knowing that things like that really happened.
On another patrol (with a Gato) later on in the same career, I actually had TWO circular runners back to back. I've made a habit of zooming the scope out after firing just in case and it's the only thing that saved me when I saw their paths change in the wrong direction.
As has been said, slow setting with very shallow depth, and trying to make as near 90 degree AOB shots is about as good as you can do. If it doesn't detonate, you could always mail the warhead back to BuOrd and hope it detonates there.
