Will we face enemy torpedoes?

Tigrone · 03-04-07, 02:57 AM

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Originally Posted by boatfull

What would be cool and scary is if they can simulate your own torpedo
coming right back at you.The Tang was lost this way.

That would be real. Your own weapons are more dangerous to you than anything your enemy might do. That is always true, that is why recruits still paint the rocks white when it's snowing--to teach them enough not to shoot each other.

I think you can count the number of warships sunk in combat by subs in very low digits. If it is a fair fight, then you did not plan well. The whole reason of a sub is to stab a knife into a foe's back without risk to the sub.

Koinonos · 03-04-07, 04:59 AM

Since we can assume that in a major naval engagement there would be many torpedos in the water at surface depth fired by destroyers on both sides, I have been pondering staying at range from the gun fight and to not engage from the middle water between the forces lest my sub get caught in the ensuing torpedo crossfire.

hyperion2206 · 03-04-07, 05:45 AM

Just out of curiosity: Were the torpedoes used by US surface ships as faulty as the torpedoes used by the sub force?

joea · 03-04-07, 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by hyperion2206

Just out of curiosity: Were the torpedoes used by US surface ships as faulty as the torpedoes used by the sub force?

Yup.

Torplexed · 03-04-07, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by joea

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Originally Posted by hyperion2206

Just out of curiosity: Were the torpedoes used by US surface ships as faulty as the torpedoes used by the sub force?

Yup.

The problem extended even to aerial torpedoes. The Mk 13 aerial torpedo dated from the early 1930s. It was stubby. It's warhead originally carried 400 pounds of TNT, later 600 pounds of Torpex, that made it nose-heavy. Fleet squadrons limited drops to 50 feet at no more than 110 knots from a range of approximately 800 yards. Performance was so bad (until improved in 1944) as to make American torpedo-plane attacks well nigh futile. Luckily, we had good dive-bombers.

Depression era economics were to blame. Torpedoes were seen as too expensive to test by actually detonating. Seems incredible now.

peterloo · 03-05-07, 04:16 AM

If there were such a feature, then that would be cool

Unfortunately, the developers didn't have enough time to do this --- Even S-class subs are not included!!! Until our urges, they put that in

Boris · 03-05-07, 06:43 AM

I doubt very much we'll see AI torpedos in SH4. I do hope we do though.

03-04-07, 04:59 AM	#2
Koinonos Gunner Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 99 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	That was my concern too Since we can assume that in a major naval engagement there would be many torpedos in the water at surface depth fired by destroyers on both sides, I have been pondering staying at range from the gun fight and to not engage from the middle water between the forces lest my sub get caught in the ensuing torpedo crossfire.

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hyperion2206 Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Cologne, Germany Posts: 1,227 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Just out of curiosity: Were the torpedoes used by US surface ships as faulty as the torpedoes used by the sub force? __________________ Career of Captain Jack Shaftoe:

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peterloo Commander Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 462 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	If there were such a feature, then that would be cool Unfortunately, the developers didn't have enough time to do this --- Even S-class subs are not included!!! Until our urges, they put that in __________________ Romeo is here, but where is Juliet? The 中国水兵 (Chinese Sailor) in subsim

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03-05-07, 06:43 AM	#7
Boris Sea Lord Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Hamburg, Germany Posts: 1,691 Downloads: 41 Uploads: 0	I doubt very much we'll see AI torpedos in SH4. I do hope we do though.