TP arming Min range ?

[AP514]

Actually my scope is so Dam Dark I could hardly see the ships at point blank

[kapuhy]

Originally Posted by AP514

Actually my scope is so Dam Dark I could hardly see the ships at point blank

At night, that would be about right (you'll often find remarks like "too dark for submerged attack" in ship logs of WW2 U-Boats. Periscopes, especially attack periscope which was smaller and thus caught less light, were terribly dark in low light conditions). If this happens during day, there might be something wrong with your installation.

[KirinFrost]

just for info i always fire my torpedoes at point blank ranges of around 500m

that way i clearly cant miss

and before that i would go very close to the ships to know which merchants were armed so that i know which ones i can "save" for my deck gun later lol

but its still very hard especially at night... periscope is quite worthless in terms of magnification power lol

[XenonSurf]

To compensate for weird identification possibility - especially at night - you can use a special mod for TWOS,

TWoS UI cmd_Radio Reports_Auto Target ID

Of course it takes away some realism because this AutoTarget feature is perfect, but as I said it's to compensate for the sim limitation, so use it sparingly
But realism at some point goes overboard anyway, e.g your watch crew have magic eyes through the fog or over long distances to report you convoy smoke etc. , so the realism discussion is vain at some point.