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Originally Posted by grenadier98
So far I couldn't figure out how to shoot a slavo... I've played SH 3 before and there it was possble to select several tubes at once and to adjust the angle. I didn't find this option anywhere in the Tambor Class.
Is it just my imagination or does a crash dive with a US sub takes forever compared to a German Type VII? I know that the US subs are much bigger, so maybe that's the reason.
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American and German subs both didn't fire multiple torpedoes at once. That a major defect in SH III. The reason is that when torpedos malfunction, and they do, you don't want a premature detonation of one torpedo exploding the others launched at the same time or throwing them off course.
It was standard practice for Germans and Americans to launch torpedoes at least 5 seconds apart.
The Type VII was a tiny sub, suited for coastal defense but not really suited to the open ocean warfare it was forced to engage. So it had to take on less water to dive, which took a shorter time and it could dive quicker. The Type IX, being in the same displacement class as the Amreican fleet boat, too comparable amounts of time to dive.
What the Type VII had to give up to achieve the quick diving times wasn't worth the exchange. The Germans required a far superior design to make any meaninful dent in the Allied convoys. They never got it. Instead they were stuck trying to run the Daytona 500 with a 1960s Volkswagon Beetle.