The main thing to remember is you're not going to get many one torp kills, unless the ship happens to be loaded with ammo or fuel, depending on stock or mods, I would say only 30% of ships carry such cargo.
The other issue is because of ships being able to go into turbo speed or stops, they often can dodge one torp, spreads are used to fix the ships speed, simply if you aim at the bow, he can slow quickly to make it miss forward, so more torps to cover the length of the ship will get some hits.
Also, even if one torp hits, the ship may not lose speed, you'll be evading why it takes off, escaping or requiring you to end around and attack again, risk getting killed...If you can pull off an attack without the escorts catching you, it's better to finish ships off quickly with one attack.
If you're wanting high tonnage scores, don't waste torps on small merchants, sink only big ones, go after capital ships, BB's, Carriers, etc., Learn to damage ships and make them blow up near each other, to take each other out. Use the DG, 40bofars do great damage.
My highest tonnage on one patrol, no refits using TMO/RSRD in 1944 with a very hard tweak AI was 278K tons...., Maybe one day I'll try and break the 300K ton mark.
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