Torpedoes going under ship

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by tmdgm

I play again, set my depth to the lowest possible depth allowed.

Again, all torps go under the ship.

This is not only not possible but unrealistic.

Depending on the year, this is not only possible but very realistic. The Mk-14s in the early years were running pretty deep. Officially BuOrd had them running 11 feet deeper, but Swede's tests showed almost 15 feet deeper.

Even if we accept BuOrd's 11 feet number. 15 foot draft and a torpedo setting at 5 feet (minimum) that torpedo will run 1 foot under the ship and that is not taking into account the swells.

I would say running under a 15 foot keel ship in normal seas, during '42/'43 is entirely possible.

I think you just had some bad luck averages. On a recent mission I had six impact duds in a row. Normally you can anticipate 25% will explode (early years) but I got some bad luck averages and all six were duds.