Changing the default torpedo settings

I set all mine to 3 meters & impact before leaving port.

Will keep my eyes open for anything in the files though.

[desirableroasted]

Remember that magnetic pistols are already also set to impact (contact) settings, so there is no need to change your settings.

Of course, you still need to make a proper "impact" approach for it to work.

People say they don't like the dud/premature rates of magnetics, but I feel the bang-for-the-buck and the tactical freedom they offer far outweigh the cost of a miss.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by desirableroasted

People say they don't like the dud/premature rates of magnetics, but I feel the bang-for-the-buck and the tactical freedom they offer far outweigh the cost of a miss.

Especially if it's a ship that's big enough to be worth the expense of two eels anyway... fire them both on impact, one misses, the one that tears a hole in the side of the hull may not be enough to sink her.

But fire them both on magnetic, one's a miss/dud/preemie, and one blows up right under the keel - it's very likely that she goes down just from that without no additional 'assistance.'

[Mittelwaechter]

Well, but if you're in '44 and you shoot G7aFAT or LUT from far out with hydrophones only - hunting a convoy - you will prefer to use impact pistols only. A volley of four - at 4 meters depth runs under the escorts but will hit any freighter in its way. No keel shots for unnown targets possible - and no duds due to earths magnetic anomalies.

I do it in '41 with G7a too - to have good practise in case of surviving until '44...

[VONHARRIS]

I have abandoned the use of magnetic pistols on TI and TIIIs since they don't work in rough seas.
On the other hand , magnetic pistols work fine with acoustic homing torpedoes. I have never seen a Falke or a Zaukonig detonating prematurely which is very very good against escorts - if you live long enough to use them.

[Mittelwaechter]

^^ I second the Falke statement.

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by VONHARRIS

I have abandoned the use of magnetic pistols on TI and TIIIs since they don't work in rough seas.
On the other hand , magnetic pistols work fine with acoustic homing torpedoes. I have never seen a Falke or a Zaukonig detonating prematurely which is very very good against escorts - if you live long enough to use them.

Making a magnetic pistol setting in rough seas is inherently unreliable due to the movement of the water. A fair amount of the time (in rough seas) I'll aim 2 or 3 m above the bottom the keel only to end up having it be a perfect magnetic shot. My goal is to hit the bottom portion of the hull but frequently it ends up going under it just the right amount and cracking the ship in half.

If a magnetic shot is impossible or highly unlikely to explode (like in a storm) aiming as low as possible results in a hit at least 90% of the time (unless of course I seriously screw up the firing solution in the TDC). For aiming at escorts acoustics are great, but not so hot against merchants for the most part. They can be good for disabling their propulsion or slowing them down enough that they drop out of the convoy, otherwise they're pretty much a waste on merchants (though as you point out the pattern running ones are great on merchants).