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Originally Posted by desirableroasted
A huge and inaccurate generalization, though perhaps that has been your experience to date.
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Yeah, it's been my experience so far. I sunk Nelson with 2 impacts 3 meters below water line, 1 foward and 1 aft.
Tankers as a general rule (for me at least) sink almost immediately after a 1m impact torpedo well placed.
Escorts and most military vessels, same thing, 1m impact.
I sink Bogue with 1 impact most of the time (I actually find them too easy to sink)
The tough ones I find are large merchants (cargo, whale factory....), one fish almost never (takes a long time) but after 2 they go down.
I have been frustrated too many times by magnetics to use them anymore.
It took the German 3 years to fix the problem.
I agree with you that you need a good AOB to get the hit, but i'm getting rather good now at setting up inside a convoy.
Depending of the contacts, I usually get 2 to 3 kills forward and 1 or rarely 2 aft on my first run, then reload and do the same on the second run with maybe more kills because the large vessels are sunk on the first run.
After 1943, you get the nice torpedoes (Acoustics) with magnetic fixed, but I still use impact.
I'm a stuburn Commander...
Actually some real German Commanders swore only by impacts after the Norway invasion where they got robbed of so many kills.