Bad weather : Love and Hate

[desirableroasted]

Originally Posted by King_Zog

Same results again.

Now please don't misunderstand me, I am not arguing with your play style. And I am not trying to suggest AOB90 with magnetics is a some kind of wonderful tonnage winning strategy. It is not. All I am stating is that contrary to what many SH3 players believe, AOB90 shots with magnetics are indeed viable and will sink ships whether in Sh3 Editor or on patrol.

Not at all, I am a big fan of research. And I have sunk targets with 90AOB magnetics, but the failure rate has been (in my experience) unacceptably high. But given your results, I will try more often and report back.

Originally Posted by Snestorm

All my torps go into the tubes set to impact, and are unchangable without pulling them from the tubes and reloading. Therefor I fall into the Novice group when dealing with magnetics. Desirableroasted is the source for good information there.

Whether your shots are impact or magnetic need not be more than a function of depth setting. All "magnetics" are actually "impact/magnetics" ... a "magnetic" hitting a hull at 90AOB will act as an impact, and one passing under the hull will (try to) act like a magnetic.

So, in fact, there is never any need to switch from "M" to "I," unless you want a safety factor in really rough weather AND know you want an impact shot.

(And, BTW, I know jussssst enough to get myself in trouble out there.)

[Bakkels]

Originally Posted by King_Zog

Well, I positioned myself in the sh3 editor for a perfect AOB90 shot at 500 meters from the target. For the test subject I picked a tramp steamer which the recognition manual states has a draft of 6.5 meters. The target was stationary.

My AOB90 position was such that I was pointed perfectly at the forward area of the ship, between the two forward cranes. This was so I could aim at the sweetspot while ensuring the torpedo would make a straight run.

I set the torpedo depth to 10 meters just to be sure it would pass under the keel. I also removed the mod I usually use that makes the ships sit a little heavier in the water.
I fired the torpedo on the fast setting, normally I shoot on medium speed but I figured fast would be more appropriate for the test. It detonated directly under the keel (I checked with the external camera). The ship then quickly sank.

I kept repeating this and kept getting the exact same result with no mishaps.

The only way I could make the torpedo overshoot was to set its depth even deeper so the torpedo would just run under the target and not explode.

I then tried it with a small freighter and then a large merchant just to be sure the smaller ships were not just sunk by 'splash' damage (bad joke).
Apart from adjusting the torpedo depth everything was done in the same way. Same results again.

Now please don't misunderstand me, I am not arguing with your play style. And I am not trying to suggest AOB90 with magnetics is a some kind of wonderful tonnage winning strategy. It is not. All I am stating is that contrary to what many SH3 players believe, AOB90 shots with magnetics are indeed viable and will sink ships whether in Sh3 Editor or on patrol.

That's true, magnetics work fine at AOB90, but for me the big advantage of magnetic detonation is that the AOB isn't a factor anymore.
By the way, have you tested if a magnetic a meter below the keel really causes more damage than an impact shot? I know everybody seems to think that it does (because of the vacuum it creates under the boat resulting in more flooding) but everybody also thought that depth charges caused AI sonar to briefly stop working, and just a few weeks ago DarkWraith discovered that this was actually not true...