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Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980
You sure? I remember reading in several books including O Kane's book WAHOO that they set torpedos as shallow as they would go when they were having issues with deep running torpedos.Depended on sea state of course.
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Once you 'know' they definately run deep, yes, but if you don't know they run deep, then you wouldn't set them to run as shallow as you could, as the risk and danger of broaching would be high if they ran at the depth you set - which they didn't, but you wouldn't know that.
If you don't know they are faulty though, you'd have no reason to suspect they ran deep and no 'reason' in game to set them routinely to as shallow as possible as we all do from the start.
So, the real guys would set the torpedo at the 'correct' depth, making it run deep if you see what I mean. The point I'm trying to make is in the game you can just whack it to as shallow as you can and it won't cause any problems at all, even if the torpedoes do run at the depth they are set to, but RL they had to guard aginst broaching, which does nothing in game so is no danger.