I love FaT. Last night I had a convoy switch directions on me, and what would have been a perfect shot at 1000m turned out to be a 5km long shot. I thought about it, then decided it was worth two T1 FaTs. I roughly guessed range with the stadimeter, and sent one torp with a run-to-enable at 5km, and another with a run-to-enable at 4km. They both had 1600m pattern widths. Five minutes later, I'm watching one of my FaTs course through the convoy. My shot was way off (the radio report said 7 kts, and maybe it was more like 9 now). But sure enough, one of the FaTs cycled back in its pattern, and on the return swing it nailed a Composite Freighter in the bow section. The other torp missed and eventually ran out of steam. Oh well - one hit for two ain't bad. Especially when it was from such an incredible range. T1 FaTs are where it's at - the steam torpedo gives it a really long life and hence it can fill out more of its pattern. With T2s, the life is so short (5km I think) that you only get a couple of turns out of the FaT pattern before the torpedo dies. I'm thinking of trying a really long shot with four T1 FaTs in a spread, with alternating range settings. Like barely even aim at the convoy, just get a rough speed and fire in 4 pattern torps. Could be cool - it's a different sort of attack strategy, but it might be the way to survive in the later war.
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