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Originally Posted by Macgregor the Hammer
I thought my dud ratio was high. 4 duds in 10 torpedos. I feel for you brother!
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I have found that the TMO Mod to be very streaky when it comes to the dud rate of the Mk. 14, but always within a realistic rate of failure when compared to the actual rate of failure in WWII. I'll have patrols where only 3 or 4 will be duds, then on the very next patrol it will go the other way and only 3 or 4 will detonate on contact. Very random, but I imagine that's how it really was, completely random.
I started disengaging the influence detonator long ago. I have found that there is nothing that will ruin a meticulously planned and expertly and carefully executed torpedo attack setup like 2 or 3 torpedoes exploding after only traveling half way to their target, to let all the escorts know there is a United States Navy sub in their midst, before even any cargo ships have been hit... Nothing that is short of surfacing the boat and then me climbing up to the top look out spot on the bridge and mooning them all. (if you could do such a thing in the game, but you get my drift.)
I am only playing a game and duds make me totally nuts. I can not even begin to imagine actually being sent out to do battle with a weapon that is more likely to fail then actually work, and it was the primary weapon no less. It's hard for me to accept the fact that no one was really made to answer for knowingly sending out boats, crewed with fellow American sailors, with a weapon that they knew was faulty and likely had more then one serious problem. Not one guy spent one minute in prison, and who knows how many boats where lost, and American sailors killed, because of the faults of the Mk. 14.
Sorry. I'll get off my soap box now. This just really gets me so very pissed off.
Different subject.
Did some subs really have a little ice cream machine on board dose anyone know? I know the U.S. subs got the best food in the navy for moral purposes, and it would make sense to have a way to make ice cream on board for that purpose. And if they did was it allowed, or was it allowed only if no one else knew about it?
Just curious
-StealthRabbit