Torpedo Oddity

c13Garrison · 08-09-13, 12:22 PM

I had something bad happen on my 3rd Narwhal patrol, but pretty cool from a game mechanics point of view. I was waiting in Convoy College when a lone ship ran through at 12 knots.

I fired 4 torps fast from open tubes, the first 3 on the same mark so they were running about 15-20 feet behind each other and probably within 5 feet of the same track. The first torpedo had a premature detonation, and as the trailing 2 reached the zone of disturbed water they detonated too! I didn't realize the water modeling was so accurate as that.

The 4th was skewed about 100 feet further back along the Maru's hull, thus having a clean run in, and exploded below the keel to break the ship in half.

08-09-13, 12:22 PM	#1
c13Garrison Ensign Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Chicago-ish, USA Posts: 223 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	Torpedo Oddity I had something bad happen on my 3rd Narwhal patrol, but pretty cool from a game mechanics point of view. I was waiting in Convoy College when a lone ship ran through at 12 knots. I fired 4 torps fast from open tubes, the first 3 on the same mark so they were running about 15-20 feet behind each other and probably within 5 feet of the same track. The first torpedo had a premature detonation, and as the trailing 2 reached the zone of disturbed water they detonated too! I didn't realize the water modeling was so accurate as that. The 4th was skewed about 100 feet further back along the Maru's hull, thus having a clean run in, and exploded below the keel to break the ship in half.