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Originally Posted by desirableroasted
Shooting salvos almost always fails cost/benefit analysis, especially when you can take the time to find your solution and shoot.
It takes only a half minute or so extra to shoot four separate shots, which, even when you are under pressure, gives you far better target control (and spares you the stress of watching spread angle, etc).
For the past year or two, I've only used salvos (two shot salvos only) when making snap-shots under extreme pressure -- and even then, it has rarely been worth the candle.
Run the Courageous single mission a few times and compare how you do with 4-shot salvos against 4 single shots. I think you will be surprised at the results.
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Well the reason I did it is because I knew that as soon as i fired (It was a night surface attack) I was at flank speed heading away from where I fired to dodge escorts coming to find me. Thats why I fired the salvo so I didnt have to wait for each tube to open, and as soon as the fourth left the tube I could leave. Mind you I had them all set to slow and was about 5km away.
Which brings me to another question, Ive started doing this (because I read that destroyers backtrack your torpedoes progress to the firing point) and have fired from 5km at night used flank to get pretty far away then dove and switched to silent running and 50 rpms and destroyers still come straight for me as soon as the torpedoes hit. What gives??? Is there a way (Besides Electrics) to fire and get away without a hitch??