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Originally Posted by TDK1044

I hope this will be an option and not forced into the mod. Even though your data is accurate, I don't believe the US sub Captains assumed that one out of every three torpedos they fired would be a dud.....nor that two out of every five would explode prematurely. Was it a possibility? Sure, but they could equally fire ten torps with no problems at all and then fire five and have two duds.

Actually, in the evaluation of the Wahoo's 6th patrol, one of the criticism's of Morton's tactics was only firing a single fish at a target. The higher ups considered a 2 torpedo spread a minimum and a spread of 3 the recommended practice . Part of this was to compensate for an calculation errors, and the other part was because they new problems could arise with the torpedoes.

And on Peto's comment- some enterprising torpedo men would pull the pin's and machine their own instead of waiting for them to be supplied to the boat. Bubbleheads have always been an enterprising bunch.

One thing that I haven't seen in the game yet is a fish broaching. When that happend and they dove back into the water ANYTHING could happen. circles, veering off, diving down at a steep angle and so on. This was not as common a problem, but occasionally the cause of a fish going to deep, was because it actually started too shallow. Especially in rougher seas.