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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
That's the problem with having circle runners in the game. In R/L the sonar operator's only job when firing torpedoes is to track the torpedoes. He could tell if they were running true on vector, or whether they strayed from the set course. And he could tell in an instant that they had a circle runner. Trust me, he'd announce that instantly.
Now if the sub were submerged, the torpedo would be set fifteen or 20 feet deep and that would be the exact depth of juicy parts of the very slow-moving submarine. Warning or not, there's a good chance of eating your own torpedo.
But in your scenario, unless you're running the torpedo on the surface, there's about zero chance of getting hit. You were running away on the surface. The torpedo should have passed under. After all, it's very difficult to hit even a DD because torps tend to pass under. But they hit your sub every time? Makesanosensa.
So two things: you would know in R/L that you had a circle runner. If you were surfaced, the circle runner should be harmless.
This is the opposite of Ducimus' achieving realistic player behavior by unrealistic events. This is producing unrealistic player behavior by realistic events.
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All depends on the torpedo depth.I don't ID ships at night with the auto ID unless it's moonlight and can clearly see them, I just label them target 1 and target 2.I could see they were large merchants so set torpedo depth to 10 feet.Sometimes I set them shallow as possible, helps flooding with the longer sinking times mod for TMO.
Surfaced a circle runner always harmless? Zero chance of getting hit? I have to disagree. For sure, it is known Tang and Tulibee were sunk by circle runners, while on the surface.
USS Pollack had a circle runner(was unaware) which was a Mark 14 that ran deeper than set, still set off the magnetic exploder when under Pollack, which knocked out power etc for a good 10 minutes I believe it was, while it needed to be hauling away from the convoy just fired on it.Torpedo had ran to depth set, Pollack would have been lost.
Sure several of the others lost to unknown causes were destroyed by circle runners.
Barb had a few herself but they detected them in time, sometimes thanks to the sonar listening to them but it was by no means a guarantee.