Salvo?

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by CaptainMattJ.

Yea but thats firing one tube at a time. i couldve sworn there was a way to allow your boat to fire all selected torpdoes at once with a spread angle so that your shots were evenly distributed across the ship.

Got ya, as RR said, it's impossible, nor should it be possible. Can't believe they put this in SH3. Think of the danger.

Course if you just after your torps getting there at the same time, shoot your first ones slow, the the others fast, timed right you can make the torps hit at the same time. There is some math behind it for perfect timing that was once posted somewhere.

[CaptainMattJ.]

Originally Posted by Armistead

Got ya, as RR said, it's impossible, nor should it be possible. Can't believe they put this in SH3. Think of the danger.

Course if you just after your torps getting there at the same time, shoot your first ones slow, the the others fast, timed right you can make the torps hit at the same time. There is some math behind it for perfect timing that was once posted somewhere.

like i said. i meant fire the torpedoes just in a salvo solution. not fired literally all at once. just fired in a solution where you dont have to fire one, ai, input correct spread, fire then select next and so on.

[tater]

Fratricide was not the only reason for spacing firings.

Boat trim was a significant concern. Even automated systems to trim for the shot could fail, broaching the boat. Firing many at once combined with any failures could be a disaster.

[tater]

There are a few types of spread, should the game do all, or just some?


In general, SH doesn't do the proper paradigm of player as skipper, I agree. Be nice to order a spread of a certain kind with 8 secs between fish, then say "fire."

[Rockin Robbins]

On the American TDC the spread dial is global, applying to all torpedoes equally. You have to set it to a different offset for each torpedo you fire, just as the real guys did. This helped enforce the proper spacing of shots by automatically taking up the necessary time interval.

In practice I seldom use the spread dial at all. I like to individually target each torpedo for a specific site on the target. Unfortunately, our American TDC is nerfed also. The real one let you calculate spreads of any percentage of the target length, making salvos much easier to distribute and ensuring that hits were spread out over the target's length. The devs should have consulted Nisgeis!