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Actually, with my play-style, I've been able to one-shot pretty much every enemy ship in the game save the Iowa class and the HMS Hood, though I'm working on figuring out both...
...For the most part, ANY enemy ship around 15000 tons and less can be one-shotted. Larger ships like passenger ships, Aux Cruisers, and the smaller battleships (not the Southamptons) can be sunk with a well placed shot right behind either the fore or aft turret, or at the very rear near the screws.
...Now, my strategy is a bit weird. Around 95% of my shots are done with the torp running at it's shallowest setting using Impact pistons. Around 4% of the time I run the torp around 2-3 meters with impact pistons. The remaining 1% are deeper shots using magnetic pistons, usually to finish off the bigger ships that wouldn't sink with a one-shot.
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I think the military ships are a little easier, not sure if by in game design or just by my personal experience thus far. I've almost always taken down a military vessel with one shot or crippled her so badly she disengages. Merchant vessels on the other hand, tend to be a little tougher as they are designed to stay afloat under greater weights and stresses. The "trick" I believe in interrupting supply to the allies is to take down as may ships carrying cargo as possible. Military ships were cheap and easily replaced, while supply ships were few and costly to build. (Don't get me wrong I start to salivate at the sight of a capital just like the rest, but I tend to save my torps for the merchants.)
Anyway I had a good run at a large convoy just after I had posted last. Sent all eels below keel in bad weather with magnetic pistol (bad weather requires point blank shots so less likely to experience pre-mature detonation) sunk all ships hit with one shot except for the Pyro which too two because it made a run for it after first hit.
I used 7 shots for six sunk: 3 large Merchants/cargo, 1 medium merchant/cargo, 1 Pyro and 1 DD who snuck up on me from behind in the weather.
Some of the eels detonated in the spots listed by Brag and others here, but all energy should have been passed to the ship explaining their rather rapid demise.
Or maybe I just got lucky.
Ichi..
PS. Thanks for the welcome, I've been a ghost for some time, but thought I'd fianally chime in.
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