[Dogfish40]

Originally Posted by White Owl

I'm pretty sure the chance for duds is mod-dependent. Reading up on RFB 2.0 I saw the chance of a dud is greater with fast mk 14s, so I only use the slow setting. Add 10-15 feet to the depth, always hit at a shallow angle instead of T-boning them, never use contact influence, and set to slow speed... so far my mk 14s hit and explode more often than they don't. Sometimes the target ship can dodge one or two torpedoes, but rarely all four.

I know it's kind of cheating, though, since a real sub skipper in '42 didn't know exactly what the problem was with the torpedoes.

At the same time, the Crew's did have their suspicions and sometimes they were right on. It's interesting that during the war one of the problems was that the fish were running deeper than than set. So I was interested to read that you're setting yours to run deeper still. It's probably due to the fact that the game doesn't mimic that particular problem, just duds, prematures and circular runs. Do you add the depth to make them harder to spot? I'm just wondering as I may use this sometimes, I just want to know when I might try it.

Originally Posted by tmdgm

When do you use slow torp vs fast torp speed? I've always been a fan of fast torp speed. but i read somewhere that fast torps increases duds. So i switched to slow and haven't hit squat cuz they turn way before they get there. So if fast torp speed is good, when do you use slow? Also, is this the same for SH3?

I find that I want to use the Fish set to Hi-Speed but for some reason, even at 2000 yrds to 1700 yrds I get more misses when they're set this way. Low speed at 1500 almost always hits home.
I really like Hi-Speed just for that very reason,...If I can't close in time and have to fire from over 1500 yrds, I want the fish set at Hi-Speed to simply cut down on the enemy's reaction time. Like I said though, I get misses more often this way.
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