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Originally Posted by Mr.Elendig
Inmy experience, atleast in early war (havn't gotten to 43 yet) with the mark14 the contact/influense switch workd the oposite. I've had torps set to contact, detonate perfectly 3 feet under the keel of sips, and torps set to contact/influence pass 1 foot under without detonating
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I'm pretty certain after some experiments that the dial works as a TOGGLE. The problem is that it doesn't accurately reflect the current setting. It seems to carry over from your last fired torpedo.
Example: 4 torpedo salvo, aimed directly 2 feet below a target's keel (assuming C/I dial not tampered with before):
Torpedo 1: switch shows C/I; flip it; it now shows C. Fire 1!
Torpedo 2: switch shows C/I; don't flip it. Fire 2!
Torpedo 3: siwtch shows C/I; flip it; it now shows C. Fire 3!
Torpedo 4: switch shows C/I; flip it; it now shows C. Fire 4!
Expected results:
Torpedo 1 set to Contact; will pass under the keel.
Torpedo 2 set to Contact/Influence; will detonate.
Torpedos 3&4 set to Contact; will both pass under the keel.
Results:
Torpedo 1 passes clean under the keel - expected.
Torpedo 2 passes clean under the keel - NOT EXPECTED.
Torpedo 3 detonates under keel - NOT EXPECTED.
Torpedo 4 passes clean under the keel - expected.
This happens to me in one particular scenario. I might do more testing if I'm not lazy.
So what's going on? Apparently the last C-C/I setting will carry over from either the last torpedo shot or the last torpedo shot from that one particular tube. This seems to be true for speed settings as well.