Game difficulty: dead is dead

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by mikka

I suspected that it was something like that, and this is what I love about subsim. Simulation nerds with the commitment to realism and the willpower to forfeit saves, to refuse to use the event camera and prefer to just hear the torpedo explosions because they are running deep for a clean escape.

I never reload torpdoes while in combat, as they weigh around a ton and the steep diving angles involved in dodging depth charges make that quite dangerous. I also never reload externals unless in a dead calm and while at a dead stop.
I do, however, reload dead careers if, and only if, I died because a reload made me hit the bottom, or TC made my u-boat suddenly appear a mile up a mountainside.