Well, I sank the Hood finally. Funny thing is that it took an impact torpedo, not a magnetic to take her down. I got into Plymouth the usual way, it was foggy, I got close enough to her to see where she was parked exactly but I still had no identification from my officer. Anyway, I backed away a bit to give myself the proper distance for torps to arm. Sent off three magnetics, one after the other. Two of them hit the target while the third missed, but she kept afloat. So I'm thinking "great, wont be able to sink her again". So I fire off a forth torp without paying attention to the settings. Only after firing do I notice that it was set to impact and slow speed. So now I'm dissapointed even more because I'm think it's a wasted torpedo since I had a really bad angle for impact torps. However, I hear an explosion and my officer confirms a hit, and then following that there were several other bigger explosions and I see the message 'She's going down'. Now I'm think wow, is that luck or what? I'm also thinking if by having that impact torp set on slow speed increases the chances of it actually exploding on contact if you have a bad angle.
What do you all think?
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