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Originally Posted by Platapus
Really sucks that it is so different from SH3.
Is this historically accurate?
Could the German's spread their torps by the periscope and the American's couldn't?
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I'm not sure what you mean by "spread". If you mean having different angles on the gyros, so the torpedoes would hit different parts of the ship, then neither Americans nor Germans could do that from the periscope; the spread angle had to be dialed directly into the TDC. If you meant firing salvoes of several torpedoes at once, then yes, the Germans could do that and the Americans couldn't, but with one caveat: the Germans had a 'Salvo' selector switch, but it's a pretty good bet that it didn't actually fire the torpedoes; it likely just told the torpedomen which tubes to fire. SH3 has it wrong there, in firing them all at once. They certainly still fired them several seconds apart. If fired at the same time there would be too big a chance of them hitting each other, and the problem with the magnetic detonators would be even worse.