Just spent 5 torps trying for one 4650ton Merchant... a tale of woe inside...

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Originally Posted by Shrike37

I'm all set up for a good 90 degree shot (0 gyro angle) at ~1100m. The seas are pretty rough though, so I'm not 100% on my data (with all the bobbing up and down of his boat and mine) but feel pretty good. I get a 2 torpedo spread ready to help account for any error due to the rough seas.

They are the basic TypeII early war electric torpedoes. I set them for 0 depth and impact detonation because of the manufacturing flaws they had in real life. I open doors I and III; I let them fly. I have most realism stuff on, but I like the free move camera to watch the show. So I jump in the camera and follow the torpedoes underwater. About halfway to the target, one of my torpedoes explodes!

I can only guess that the huge waves messed up the torpedo somehow and caused it to detonate.

There's a sort of 'bug' with the torpedo Impact/Magnetic switch: if you select Salvo fire and then switch from Magnetic to Impact then it will only switch one of the torpedos to Impact - the rest of your Salvo will all use Magnetic detonators (and will therefore be prone to premature detonations, especially in rough weather). If you want to fire a salvo and make them all Impact then you have to select each tube individually and set each one to Impact before switching to Salvo fire.

HTH
OLC