TMO - duds and duds and more duds!!

[Ray.]

Hey guys,
so i managed to get the expansion and install TMO2.5 (got rid of sh5!),
anyway, first mission and I am face to face with a small convoy :2 destroyers and merchant maru. So, I got the sub at the perfect position, set up my solution, and fired 4 toprs from an approximate distance 2000+yards and down I go!

Happily waiting for my crew guy to report torpedo impact!! right?
and so here we go:

Crew Guy: Torpedo is a dud sir! (what the hell, i have another 3)
Crew Guy: Torpedo is a dud sir! (Hmm, unlucky!)
Crew guy: Torpedo is a dud sir! (What in the blue hell????????)
Crew guy: Torpedo is a dud sir! (For the love of god!!!!!!!!!)


Come on!!!!!!!!! all four??????????????? hahahaha

[Floyd]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo

Dan Daspit (in Tinosa) carefully documented his efforts to sink 19,000 ton whale factory ship Tonan Maru III on 24 July 1943. He fired four torpedoes from 4,000 yd (3,700 m); two hit, stopping the target dead in the water. Daspit immediately fired another two; these hit as well. With no enemy anti-submarine combatants in sight, Daspit then took time to carefully maneuver into a textbook firing position, 875 yd (800 m) square off the target's beam, where he fired nine more Mark 14s and observed all with his periscope (despite the Japanese firing at it). All were duds.Daspit, suspicious by now he was working with a faulty production run of Mark 14s, saved his last remaining torpedo to be analyzed by experts back at base. Nothing out of the ordinary was found.

Do not fire from a "perfect" position.

[Ray.]

really??
where should i fire from!?

How fast can i replace this "plague" !

[Fish40]

U.S. torpedoes were plagued with problems early on in the war. Both the exploder and depth keeping mechanism were faulty. Your best bet early war, is to set the torpedo depth as shallow as possible, set the torpedo speed to slow, and try to fire at an angle other than 90 degrees.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Ray.

really??
where should i fire from!?

How fast can i replace this "plague" !

On top of the magnetic pistol and depth-keeping problems they discovered that if the impact pistol struck from a perfect 90-degree angle it had a good chance of crushing the firing pin and not exploding. Striking at a technically "worse" angle made the torpedo explode. Surprisingly the Germans had the opposite problem - impact-set torpedoes would only explode at a 90-degree angle.

[Ducimus]

Duci's Weather rock for Torpedo firing

If sea is windy, use impact. Getting to the target is half the problem.
If sea is calm, use magnetic. Getting to the target isn't the problem.

[Stoli151]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Duci's Weather rock for Torpedo firing

If sea is windy, use impact. Getting to the target is half the problem.
If sea is calm, use magnetic. Getting to the target isn't the problem.

I used this advice in early 42 and get quite a bit of my torpedoes to detonate along with setting depth at zero and use low speed when possible. Since it is his mod he would know. The only problem I have now is that once they do detonate the DD's know I am there and getting away from them is a whole other issue for me.

[TorpX]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Duci's Weather rock for Torpedo firing

If sea is windy, use impact. Getting to the target is half the problem.

If sea is calm, use magnetic. Getting to the target isn't the problem.

A couple of technical questions:

1. Will there be a in-game Mark I 'TorpRock' in TMO 2.6?


2. Can Torpedomen with Special Rock Ability (and trained by BuOrd) operate 'TorpRock' underwater without penalty?

[mido]

Originally Posted by Ray.

Hey guys,
so i managed to get the expansion and install TMO2.5 (got rid of sh5!),
anyway, first mission and I am face to face with a small convoy :2 destroyers and merchant maru. So, I got the sub at the perfect position, set up my solution, and fired 4 toprs from an approximate distance 2000+yards and down I go!

Happily waiting for my crew guy to report torpedo impact!! right?
and so here we go:

Crew Guy: Torpedo is a dud sir! (what the hell, i have another 3)
Crew Guy: Torpedo is a dud sir! (Hmm, unlucky!)
Crew guy: Torpedo is a dud sir! (What in the blue hell????????)
Crew guy: Torpedo is a dud sir! (For the love of god!!!!!!!!!)


Come on!!!!!!!!! all four??????????????? hahahaha

I was complaining about the same thing, read this thread:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=190928

Following some good piece of advise given here fixed my problems. By the end of '43 everything is "cool".

[Ray.]

Originally Posted by mido

I was complaining about the same thing, read this thread:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=190928

Following some good piece of advise given here fixed my problems. By the end of '43 everything is "cool".

oh boy, this is going to be fun
iam early 41 patrol haha

will try with all tips given!