Another oddball question: How deep can the subs in SH3 be and safely fire a torpedo?

[Sailor Steve]

I'll tell you something weird. In SH3 you can use the switches to open all the doors, and I've done so on many ocassions. More than once I've only fired a couple of torpedoes then gone deep. The game doesn't care if the doors are open, but I do. So I'm deeper than 25 meters and start flipping switches to close the doors that were still open only to be told "Too deep to fire torpedoes, Herr Kaleun!"

So you not only can't open the doors if you're too deep, you can't close them again either!

[TorpX]

I paged through some of the USN manual provided by SS. Interesting stuff. I noted that it was possible for at least some types of torpedos to be launched down to 200 ft. keel depth. They had to increase the impulse tank pressure to accomplish this. (Check pp 131-132.)

I think one of the reasons both the KM and USN favored impulse luanching of torpedos is that you would have to have the torpedo smaller in diameter, than the tube, or else it would not be able to swim out. The USN did this with the "cutie", but AFAIK, it was the only one.

So you not only can't open the doors if you're too deep, you can't close them again either!

I'm guessing that the game closes the tubes automaticly at a certain depth. I think this happens in SH 4.