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AVGWarhawk · 10-19-06, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Albrecht Von Hesse

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Originally Posted by Perseus

One torp, two torps, three torps...?

I had a little encounter y'day with a lone C3 cargo. Got myself into a superb firing position, set tubes to 'salvo' and jammed three eels right into its starboard side. BOOM-BOOM-BOOM.

Stopped engines, waited. And waited. OK, wait some more. Dammit! Set time compression to 32. OK, 128 then. Tick-tick-tick... Nothing.

Darn. OK, another eel at broadside. BOOM. Waited. Waited. Waited, etc.
What the hell...!? OK, TWO EELS MORE THEN!!!

BOOM-BOOM.

Tick-tick-tick...

Then I'd had enough. Fired TWO MORE eels and only then did the final "She's going down!" come through. Of course, by that time, sonarman was going NUTS about the high-pitched screws of three destroyers moving in at high speed

In total I spent nearly a full 24 hrs on one C3 and wasted 8 eels. Fortunately I was relatively close to France so sailed back to St Nazaire and start a new mission.

It isn't necessarily how many torpedoes you fire, as it is where they hit. If you're using auto-targetting and just keep hitting the center of the ship, it doesn't help a lot. Try (if you haven't already) evenly distributing the impacts. Also try and target the critical hit areas: engine room and fuel bunkers.

Yep, got to hole each part of the ship