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Old 04-15-11, 06:52 AM   #15
desirableroasted
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Originally Posted by King_Zog View Post
Same results again.

Now please don't misunderstand me, I am not arguing with your play style. And I am not trying to suggest AOB90 with magnetics is a some kind of wonderful tonnage winning strategy. It is not. All I am stating is that contrary to what many SH3 players believe, AOB90 shots with magnetics are indeed viable and will sink ships whether in Sh3 Editor or on patrol.
Not at all, I am a big fan of research. And I have sunk targets with 90AOB magnetics, but the failure rate has been (in my experience) unacceptably high. But given your results, I will try more often and report back.

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Originally Posted by Snestorm View Post
All my torps go into the tubes set to impact, and are unchangable without pulling them from the tubes and reloading. Therefor I fall into the Novice group when dealing with magnetics. Desirableroasted is the source for good information there.
Whether your shots are impact or magnetic need not be more than a function of depth setting. All "magnetics" are actually "impact/magnetics" ... a "magnetic" hitting a hull at 90AOB will act as an impact, and one passing under the hull will (try to) act like a magnetic.

So, in fact, there is never any need to switch from "M" to "I," unless you want a safety factor in really rough weather AND know you want an impact shot.

(And, BTW, I know jussssst enough to get myself in trouble out there.)
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