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Originally Posted by scubamatt
How close can I be, and still have enough time for the torpedo to arm and explode on a target? Does contact only vs contact/influence make a difference?
I was closing in on a slow moving convoy this morning, on the surface and in extremely bad weather, radar was intermittent, and visibility was total crap. It finally showed a ship icon 600m from my sub. I was watching from the bridge when the ship finally became visible at just over 400 yards.
I fired the torp I had ready and crash dived, making a hard turn to port (opposite the targets line of travel) and nearly rammed him as my torpedo exploded. Took some light damage, but not sure if it was from scraping the target ship or backblast from my own torpedo exploding.
I got to thinking about that, and so I came here to ask.
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guess back-blast from your torpedo .... if you look at DC's blast damage & radius of blast for critical damage charts, 400 yards is very close. Of course this is a torpedo, not a DC - plus if this is later in the War you could have Torpex which is approx 50% more powerful than TNT.
However, you said you're on the surface and crash-dived, so there could have been a collision.....
I'm surprised it had enough time to arm at 400 yds, even if set to slow-speed.
Because after (now famous) extensive testing the influence exploder was found to be defective, I always use the 'contact' setting beginning around the time period the order went out.
There is a lot of math necessary to figure this one out... lol
I guess 450 yards : )
Happy Hunting Captain!