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Originally Posted by swdw
If you downloaded this mod to get historically accurate play, the problem with the dud / missing torpedoes is??
You need to read about the sub that fired TWELVE fish at a target dead in the water and every torpedo either passed under the target or bounced off the hull as a dud.
A lot of work was done to get the failure rate historical at different firing angles. If you want to know what the solution to this, read some history on it. The skippers came up with a not so easy solution that worked comprised of 3 steps.
Not being sarcastic here. Part of the fun is learning the history and about the "conspiracy" of the boat skippers to do exactly the opposite of what fleet headquarters SOP told them to do in order to get more hits and reduce the number of duds.
The ranging issue is something entirely different and do not have a solution for that one.
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The only thing more shameful than the Mark 14 torpedo debacle in American Military History is the bulk of America's performance in the War of 1812.
The torpedo scandal reflected much of the apathy existing towards the Navy during the Interwar Years. Insufficient funding, poor testing and the cardinal sin of "assumption" pretty much left the submarines impotent in many attacks. Funny thing is that the Germans experienced the same assumption failures regarding ENIGMA intercepts and decoding.