Cuties... What am I doing wrong?

[Spraug]

Nice one with the Yamato. I hope I'll get a chance at one of those eventually - already had once, but I was out of ammo, except for 20mm AA and I really didn't think that would do the trick.

My experience with cuties is not so great so far - I only used them once: when I came at a Liner task force - three liners (two modern, one old big one) guarded by two destroyers up front plus one each at 4 and 8 o'clock. It was perfect submarine weather: overcast skies and choppy, but not stormy seas. At low speed they would never see me.

Approaching the task force at their 2 o' clock so I had a perfect angle. The tubes were loaded in a Noah's Ark outfit (two each of cuties, electric and classic - what is that Mk 27, 18 and 14?) and I decided to launch one cutie at each of the lead destroyers and then the Mk 18s at the first liner, then the steam ones at the second. By that time it wouldn't matter if the DDs heard me, because they would be burning. I launched the first four quickly and then wanted to check the attack map for an update when I noticed that the cuties were just "strolling around" like they were window shopping, neither going for the DDs nor in the original fire direction. Plan quickly changed, since by now we were pretty close anyway, the escorts got the classic steam treatment (Mk 14), which worked beautifully and then a nice cat-and-mouse game ensued which ended with me sinking the whole Task Force (four DDs and three liners) and I guess all is well that ends well, but … how exactly do you use cuties? Only in calm weather?

Thanks