Bad weather affects more than the torpedo.
It affects the target ship speed. What I mean by that, if you are tracking the target speed in bad weather, it will change. The ship may go from 5kts to 7kts or less! I use the 3 bearing method a lot and this is pretty accurate, but when the seas are rolling, the speed, and the distance of the ship are affected by the rolling waves. With that in mind, the ship moves up and down with the waves, slows down and speeds up due to the physics of the ocean.
Even if you set your depth perfectly, and knew the torpedo was good and will not fail, you could miss your ship. And for those of you that love to set your torp shallow to impact the ship, you risk a failure. This is what they call a lose/lose situation, but this is what the commanders faced every attack.
The way I do it is if I see a lone ship I really want, but will I just can't wait for the weather, I only use aft torpedoes. That way if I fail, I don't feel so bad about losing one torpedo versus 4.
Trust me I would be tempted to use them all.
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