So it's late 1943, and I have access to Type IVs. Soon Type Vs. I've been reading the older threads on them, and they seem to be really effective (especially the Type Vs). Given that they were generally quite unreliable in real life, they seem much improved in the game. My question is, how do you use them?
1- Do you plot a normal solution and fire them?
2- Are they more effective tail on vs. bow on?
3- Do the Type IV impacts regularly fail like normal impacts if you hit at a funny angle? Will they "chase themselves" to a funny angle from a normal shot?
4- What is their minimum range?
5- What happens if the ship you shoot at slows down below 12kts? Do they stop tracking?
6- Lastly, if blindly fired at a fast convoy, are they good enough to pick up any old target and smack it?
I apologize if this is in the GWX manual. I don't have it handy at the moment, but thought I'd ask the questions any how. I do at least understand that you're supposed to shoot and get deep quickly in order to avoid getting hit by them. But at this stage of the war, "on the job" training with them vs. escorts is likely to be hazardous to my health (
) so I'm looking for tips before I sail with them.