A hilarious waste of Torps!

[Riggsie15]

I came across this Large Merchantman andas normal set up a perfect 90 degree shoot. Anyhow I wanted to follow the advise of Bdu, for realism, with 1 torp with a magnetic fuse under the ship and 8 seconds later 1 with contact fuse. Well tube 4 was malfunctioning so I decided to use the other 3. 1 would be magnetic and pass half a meter under the ship the other 2 would come 8 seconds later in a salvo spread aiming to contact 3 meters from the bottom. I used 2 instead of 1 in the second salvo in case 1st malfuntioned.

It started well 1st exploded under the ship just rear of the center. 8 secondes after the 1st had left the tube the 2nd salvo of contact only torps were launched and were dead on tract. Then nothing I went to the map to see they had passed right through the ship. Problem was I hadn't reset the torp depths for 9.5 meters (1st salvo) to 5 meters (2nd salvo) thus without magnetic fuses they missed!

Well In my resulting rage I hastily shot off my rear torp, which of course missed! So I calmed, went wide to reload and realine when I noticed she was sinking so I surfaced and sped her up with the deck gun.

So boys and girls always recheck you settings before fireing. This attack which was suppose to end in 3 hits resulted in 1 hit 3 wasted torps!

Happy hunting and learn from others mistakes.