Attacking a Convoy in Silent Hunter 3

[GJO]

Originally Posted by Zosimus

That's great. So you can fire the torpedoes out the front tubes, have them curve a bit, and hit the ships.

But this doesn't let you use the aft tubes.

Yes that is how it was done in real life - the torpedoes are steered by a giro device and once set it will keep the torpedo on a straight course - AFAIK the giros were adjusted by the crew in the torpedo compartment as soon as the officer read out the calculated settings. If the torpedoes course is set to 90 degrees from the subs course, then the torpedo will follow a tight curve until the giro senses that it is going in the right direction. It works with all torpedoes including those in the stern tube(s) - in the game, I haven'y tried setting them up to run at an angle greater than 90 degrees but I can confirm that, at that angle they run nicely.