If done corrctly by the devs, you need to NOT have a nice 90 degree intercept torpedo run. In real life this caused the trigering mechanism to be crushed by the impact before it could do it's job and set off the torpex (or whichever "active" ingredient was in the nose of the torp.) It was found the "imperfect" torpedo runs resulted in the torpedo working. Early torpedoes also had faulty depth keeping so they were set to run higher than the draft of the boat. Then to top it all off, the magnetic influence trigger was a failure, so after a while torpedoes were set to run on the surface until about 1943.
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