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Originally Posted by Zero Niner
What do you set the spread to, in terms of degrees? The default 5 (or was it 10) deg is too wide, some of the torps will miss. Even 1 deg spread may miss if you're trying a long range shot.
Any rules of thumb?
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you're missing the point... it doesn't matter if not all of them hit, the whole purpouse of the fan shot is to sacrifice all the other torpedoes in your fan shot as "misses" in exchange for insuring that the remaining one will hit.
How wide should you spread them? well, it depends on range to target and the length of your target. As you fire your fan shot, the torpedoes start very close to each other, but as they travel along, they start to "fan appart" (separate from each other, as they each follow their own course, as dictated by the angle that you chose). At the moment when they reach the target's range, they should be separated from each other by about ONE TARGET LENGTH. More than that you'll risk the target sliping by between two adjancent torpedoes, less than that and you won't be covering as wide an area as you could and you risk not hitting the target with any torps at all (assuming your firing solution was incorrect).
Turn on the "God's eye view" and play around with the setting while in the "f6" screen and you'll get the hang of it.