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Originally Posted by John Pancoast
Fwiw, using your torpedo to tonnage ratio examples. IRL according to the Blair books, a 8-10k ship would usually get 3-4 torpedoes fired at it (a plum prize that size, torpedo reliability, etc.) and it wasn't uncommon for even smaller ships to get the same treatment.
The "two torpedoes on the big one and a single on the two mid-size/smaller ones" that can easily be done game wise, would have been more like "all four at one of them" in reality.
So thats how I handle such but of course everyone is free to play the game as they see fit.
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Very interesting. I really need to read the Blair books.
I believed rationing torpedoes was a thing because the aim was to remain operational for when the boat reached their assigned patrol grid to attack convoys. Hence the "ratio". Then again, in the game we encounter far more traffic than real-life Kaleuns really did.
So, aside to serve as moving weather stations or convoy shadower, I take that u-boats often went to submarine tenders to resupply in torpedoes?