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Originally Posted by GTHammer
Ok, I thought I'd try piggybacking my question onto this thread before I started my own. Like popeye I have encountered merchants ect and chalked up a number of hits with my torpedos and things just seemed wrong in general. For example I used 5, count 'em 1,2,3,4,5 torpedos on a single Large Modern Composite. The first torpedo was a dud, but even if you throw it out the ship still didn't sink after four hits. Each torpedo was fired at high speed from within 2000 yards and set to run at a depth of 10-12 feet. I was forced to surface and put between 8-10 HE rounds from my deck gun right into the sweet spots before she finally gave up the ghost. Anyway my question is essentially, 1. What are the best depths to run your fish at for max damage? 2. Anything else I'm missing?(Other than torpedo placement, under stack aka engine room and screws.)
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I think the torpedo depth setting is actually in meters. When you say you're setting 10 to 12 feet, do you mean 10 to 12 units on the dial or do you mean 3 to 4 units on the dial? If I'm correct, the difference is significant.
What you describe was happening to me a lot until (I think) I figured it out. Thinking the numbers on the dial were feet, I was setting the torps to hit low on the hull, or even go under if I wanted to use the magnetic detonator. The result - some of the torps were going right under the ship without exploding and others were exploding without much effect.
When I realized my mistake, I started setting all torps to the minimum depth (which if I'm right is 3 meters (or ~10 feet) and my kill rate against medium size merchants with one or two torp hits went up significantly.
JD