I guess I'm used to other game genres, and I'm a casual player. (the last sub sim I played alot was Aces of the Deep, and while I tried SH3... Aces was still better IMO).
My casual style of play probably means I have unusual, and ahistorical attack doctrine. I like to sink a ship with 2, maybe 3 torpedoes at most... 4-6 if it's really big (a carrier). I try to get the torpedo to explode under the keel, right under the engines. I've had a few ships "cook off" while I thought they were just merely limping along after two hits, but they almost always go down. But this tactic only seems to work after 1943, before then it's too unreiable and I just fill the ships full of contact exploders.
Also, to save ammo I ram sampans. I'm not sure if that's historical either. I've even rammed a gunboat or two. You can cause alot of mayhem in the SH4 career without even touching torpedoes. There are plenty of stealth and escort scenarios in the career mode which makes it a good change of pace from older sub sims that focused purely on tonnage.
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