Too much to reply to here directly. First of all thank you all. I could spend days just reading through threads here. The historical information you people present is pretty darned amazing. Thanks so much for the post on the battleships and their weak spots with the handy chart. I took everyone's advice to heart and reran my attack. The waters were exceptionally calm so I tried some magnetic fuses. I decided that if I could get one to hit in a weak spot the whole ship should go down pretty much instantly. I set depth to 10m and all three torpedoes hit at a range of 4300m. I used a 2-3 degree spread to keep my pattern tight. Bagging a battleship yielded and instant promotion and a decent amount of renown, but still not enough to upgrade to a VII(!!). I mean really? I just sank a battleship and I don't get an instant boat upgrade from fleet command from my type II? Bummer.
PS. feel free to derail any thread I start. I love the excursions into historical accuracy!
The HMS Revenge doesn't look so good...
