Torpedo arming distance is 300m - sometimes that is too close to escape without damaging your own boat. If it explodes before that it is premature.
A tactic I use when visibility is point blank is to get right behind the target and adjust my course to follow its track exactly. It is then possible to loose a torpedo at slow speed using the magnetic pistol shortly after the target has disappeared into the gloom. If you have matched course well enough - boom!
This takes time of course and is only possible if the target is unaware of your presence and not zig-zagging.
KH
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