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Originally Posted by Galanti
My suggestion before early '43 is to always use the slow speed setting on the Mk14, and try for steep angle shots (ie signifcantly less than 90 degrees).
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Does this negate the "close premature explosions"? I know that historically, high angle shots helped with the bad firing pins, but does that do the job here as well? I assumed they were modeling that type of dud after the also faulty magnetic influence detectors.
I feel strongly that it is definitely the duds that are making people think that torpedoes are underpowered... as I can sink a large merchant reasonably reliably with two solid hits from Mark X's, which hardly dud at all, but are much much smaller.