[TorpX]

Originally Posted by BigRich

I may have noticed a trend when I'm launching contact pistol torpedoes at escorts and light cruisers. Given their shallow draught, I set the torp to it's shallowest setting, which is one metre.
However, there have been occasions when (even in calm weather) when I have fired and the range the torp travels till impact is from 400 to 600m and the fish has bounced off the hull without exploding, even at 90 degree angles. If I move off to much longer ranges, even in rough weather, it's rare that a shallow set weapon will fail to explode on impact.
I was wondering if the game simulates the time and distance taken for the torpedo to get from the u-boat (tube maybe 12m underwater) up till it's set depth of one metre. While it arms around 300m is it possible that, even when set to 30knots, the torp does not reach a set depth of one metre till it has travelled further than this?
This problem does not seem to occur when firing at ships with deeper draughts.

It looks to me like your torps are not always arming. If for example, I make fire a torpedo after I make a stadimeter reading of 600m on a closing ship, the torpedo track may be less than 600m. Is the initial range estimate good? Is the target moving closer to my boat? How much time elapsed between the range est. and launch? And finally, how far apart is the front of the torpedo tube and the periscope? Any of these factors could reduce the distance the torpedo travels and leave insufficient distance to arm in a close range situation.