Not with a bang, but with a kind of crunch.

mmm...Dönitz · 02-09-09, 08:36 AM

At this rate the war will be over before I leave Naval Academy.

OK, so I'm pretty good at manual torpedo targetting now, even if I am relying a bit heavily on the "Gods Eye" contacts update being left on. Hey - I've got a 1st Officer with a good eye, so what?

Anyway, after putting several eels into the larger, slower moving targets at long range I am starting practising sneaking up to the smaller, more manoeuverable targets. Last night I put three into a tramp steamer, only to have her sail merrily off. WTF? Ok, the first one was a dud, I'm pretty sure. However the second and third made a kind of cerrrunch noise rather than a nice bang. No water spray or explosion or damage vidible through the scope. Is the strange noise the sound of a torp bouncing off the rounded bottom of the ship without detonating? I had depth set at 5m (IIRC the tramp's draight is 6.8m).

Seems a shame to waste more then one eel on such a little ship!

*edit* Oh yeah - and is the arming raneg definitely always 250m, or is it time based rather than distance? One of my attacks was from just over 300m away but no closer. I was also wondering if the torp didn't arm in time as it was set to fast run.

02-09-09, 08:36 AM	#1
mmm...Dönitz Seaman Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Norfolk, UK Posts: 32 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Not with a bang, but with a kind of crunch. At this rate the war will be over before I leave Naval Academy. OK, so I'm pretty good at manual torpedo targetting now, even if I am relying a bit heavily on the "Gods Eye" contacts update being left on. Hey - I've got a 1st Officer with a good eye, so what? Anyway, after putting several eels into the larger, slower moving targets at long range I am starting practising sneaking up to the smaller, more manoeuverable targets. Last night I put three into a tramp steamer, only to have her sail merrily off. WTF? Ok, the first one was a dud, I'm pretty sure. However the second and third made a kind of cerrrunch noise rather than a nice bang. No water spray or explosion or damage vidible through the scope. Is the strange noise the sound of a torp bouncing off the rounded bottom of the ship without detonating? I had depth set at 5m (IIRC the tramp's draight is 6.8m). Seems a shame to waste more then one eel on such a little ship! edit Oh yeah - and is the arming raneg definitely always 250m, or is it time based rather than distance? One of my attacks was from just over 300m away but no closer. I was also wondering if the torp didn't arm in time as it was set to fast run.