Do surface ships launch Torpedos...???

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actually during operation weseteubung or however you spell it , I was following 1 of the german battleship task force wth scharnhorst and gnieseneau going up in norwegian coast and ran into a group of british destroyers which were totally out numbered all of them had torpedo tubes and battled it out with deck guns and I would think that this would be the perfect situation for the destroyers to have used torpedoes against the battleships but they did not, so I am quite sure that the answer is no, ai ships don't use their torps its for show.