Hello propbeanie,
thank You for the detailed and comprehensive answer i will keep this info in mind for future when playing career in Sh 4.
If i could i would give You and Bubblehead1980 +REP, both of You were very helpful to me.
This is so far the best sim game that i played with excellent mods like TMO and RDRSC
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During my Pacific career i had some funny engagements with enemy merchant ships: for example when i failed to sink a 4000 tons merchant ship with 6 torpedoes (all of them missed the ship by few meters; i know i am a terrible gunner
) i engaged him with my deck gun and fired into him dozen of armor piercing and HE shells slowing him down and converting into Swiss cheese
. Finally the poor bastard was sunk by a single torpedo, while the other was a dud.
I also cut another merchant ship in half by an underwater torpedo explosion under his keel, that was quite a sight to see
. However, i am still in 1942 year in my career (i started in June 1942 after Midway battle), so the torpedoes are highly unreliable. To be honest, i scored most of my kills so far using deck gun, lol
. I watched a video on Youtube about the "Torpedo Scandal" in US Navy during the Pacific war and i was shocked about all those facts. Earlier i thought, that the torpedoes malfunction rate represented in SH4 mods are too high, now i know that it is historically accurate.