Just Brilliant !

[bstanko6]

250 meters, but you never fire at less than 300 as Fahnenbohn stated. Dude, sorry to hear that. It is very tedious getting in there! That's some experience.

[Von Due]

The 300 meter safety distance was well and truly exceeded. Them being moored I fired at 5000m in hope the distance would throw off the hunting destroyers.

[Fahnenbohn]

Originally Posted by Von Due

The 300 meter safety distance was well and truly exceeded. Them being moored I fired at 5000m in hope the distance would throw off the hunting destroyers.

So in this case, this is the angle between torpedoes and hull which was too small. Or the torpedoes couldn't go further than 5000 m (as the electric ones).

Or, your torpedoes have been sabotaged !

[Von Due]

Originally Posted by Fahnenbohn

So in this case, this is the angle between torpedoes and hull which was too small. Or the torpedoes couldn't go further than 5000 m (as the electric ones).

Or, your torpedoes have been sabotaged !

The highlighted bit. This. At least for 2 of the torpedos. 2 were electric, 2 were regular issue going slow. I must have forgotten a lot since I last played SH3 coz for some reason I thought the electric had a much greater range... Go me, huh? That would still give me 4 duds for the regular ones but 4 is much closer to what I would think possible. 28.6% as opposed to 57%.

The angle shouldn't matter as they were set to magnetic but fumo may be onto something too although I thought the torpedo crisis reached its peak around 41-42 when it was mostly solved. I am known to be wrong on many occations though so it could very well be that as well.

It may have been the previous mission that had me in a wishful state, with only 1 dud among the 14 G7a.

[bstanko6]

Ok so it's not distance, and the torps are set right.

What was the weather like? Any waves? Setting the torps too shallow even in light waves can cause failure.

There are torpedo nets in Scapa Flow!

[Von Due]

Originally Posted by bstanko6

Ok so it's not distance, and the torps are set right.

What was the weather like? Any waves? Setting the torps too shallow even in light waves can cause failure.

There are torpedo nets in Scapa Flow!

I think distance, at least for the electric ones, could very well explain it. As for the other 2 (or rather 4 with the reload), well it isn't too unheard of, just rotten luck. It was that all 8 would be duds that had me fuming. Funny enough, the one aft torpedo I used to get a clear entry to S.F. worked wonderfully, no dud there. Electric, that one.

The weather was brilliant, calm sea, clear view of all ships at more than 13 km. I didn't know about the nets though! Thanks tons. That complicates things even further!

Of well, I think right now I can let this rest for the time being. Distance exceeding the range of the electric eel, 4 duds in total, nets, bad German design, it adds up to something plausible.

[bstanko6]

Just for fun, try approaching the ships underwater, and as you get closer, raise your scope just enough to see the nets. I have hit them on my first few raids and caused a bit of good damage doing it. They are pretty much underwater walls.

[fumo30]

That was the time of topedo crisis, its just what it really was like. If you don't like it, check your mods.