Torpedo Tips...

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by schlechter pfennig

Frau Kaleun is correct about that. It's not uncommon (for me, anyway ) to hit a larger ship with one torpedo and have it finally sink anywhere from 20 minutes to two hours later.

I followed an ore carrier for 2 hours once waiting for it to sink. I put my last torpedo into her, a nice shot right into her bow section in some really heavy seas. Had the weather not been so rough I don't think I would've bothered trying to take her out with one eel, but I'd seen some pretty big ships go down after one well-placed hit in bad weather. I wasn't using All-Weather Guns so I couldn't finish her off that way either.

Also had to play footsie with an ASW trawler that came nosing around while I waited... I just stayed submerged and ran silent while I followed the ore carrier out of the area. The trawler stayed in the vicinity of the attack and we slowly but surely left it behind.

Took a while, even when I was able to bump up the TC a bit - but it was totally worth it.