destroyers avoiding torpedoes

[Seminole]

Originally Posted by zepo

Hi to everyone.I had a little problem with my last mission.I found two destroyers and a subkiller.I was in periscope depth and i decided to fire two torpedoes at the first and at the second dd.But i saw that somehow (i think that they see the torpedoe trail) they avoiding them.It happened once more later in the game.It was daytime and the sea was completely calm.If the attack was at night or at rough sea there were more possibilities to hit them?

Not confined to escorts either, I'm afraid. I posted about the merchants being able to outmanoeuver torpedos too, sometime during the past year. You might want to search up that thread.

Just a few days ago I fired six fish at three convoy ships between 700-1500 yards and they danced around like ski boats. 6 misses. Funny thing is that in the most distant line of ships...the ones that really would have had time to avoid the torpedo wakes and would have had the time to avoid them....one unlucky bastage got all 6 fish by some physics that I can't understand.

One thing I've learned about SHIV is to expect the unexpected.