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Originally Posted by shipkiller1
It is always better to hit a Soviet surface warship from a far out as possible. Over the horizon is preferable using a torpedo.
A couple of reasons.
We have a saying on Fast Boats: Let the weapon do the work.
Surface ships will not hear the torpedo until after it goes active, by then its too late. Even if you enable it way early. I do this a lot.
You do not need a knats ass solution. You can get a feel for the range in the first five minutes of the engagement. Going for the surgical strike often leaves you in a poor tactical situation. ALWAYS MAINTAIN TACTICAL CONTROL.
You do not need to be a periscope depth to launch. In fact if they have air assets around, it will hamper your approach.
In a blue water engagement, I do most of my engagements at 500ft. The helos have a much poorer chance to detect you and you have rendered MAD runs almost useless. This allows you to use your ships speed to reposition for the best shot.
In a large Surface Action Group (SAG) you can launch two or three torpedoes between 20 and 40 degrees apart and get good hits. This will break up the SAG and allow you to pick off the higher value targets. Since the game does not model 'mutual interference' of the torpedoes, its a win, win.
If you decide to use a missile, you better be going deep to open datum before those pesky helos and fix wing aircraft (IL38's and Bears) and start dropping torpedoes on your position plus the rocket fired torpedoes from the ASW ships... A couple of times they have dropped seven torpedoes on that position. Of course I was 6000 yards away (and opening range) when that happened.
You normally only have to open datum around 4 or 5K.. Use the three minute rule: A contact going 10knots, in three minutes, travels 1000 yards. Do this in your head. Plan your attack.
I can routinely get all of the ships in a 10 ship SAG with no damage and maybe one evasion. Sometimes no evasions at all.
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You are def right about all these points. Unless I'm really far away no point in attacking a surface group.