How to improve one-torpedo sink rate ?

[Oleander]

Originally Posted by Trevally.

Keel shots = 1-3m below the keel (use magnetic and TDWs fix)

Every time I try a keel shot at those depths it goes straight under without exploding.

I usually hit tankers just behind the wheel house and let them sit, they usually go down after a bit from fire damage and flooding. Unless I want to hit and run then I put one there and one in the bow so it can sit and take on water helplessly.

Everything else gets hit behind the stack and that usually takes them down with one shot.

[aschar]

Personally, I think the stock torpedoes in the game are totally understrength. I mean c'mon, 3 torpedoes to sink a 7000 ton ship? Really? Didn't Otto Kretchmer once say "One ship, one torpedo"? That's why I use the "One ship, one torpedo" mod (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=3366); there's even a lite version incase you find the torpedoes overpowered.

As for landing keel shots, I always go to within 1 meter the ship's keel. There's also a sweet spot at or near the center of ships where if you hit that, you're certain to see that ship blow in half. In the case of a Cimmaron class tanker, that sweet spot is directly behind the forward superstructure, behind the bridge to be more precise.

[Trevally.]

Originally Posted by Oleander

Every time I try a keel shot at those depths it goes straight under without exploding.

Originally Posted by Trevally.

Keel shots = 1-3m below the keel (use magnetic and TDWs fix)

[Oleander]

Originally Posted by Trevally.

Haha, I had to go back and double check, sure enough I didn't have that part enabled. Working now.

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Originally Posted by aschar

Didn't Otto Kretchmer once say "One ship, one torpedo"?

Lucky bastard that Kretchmer

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Luck's got nuthin to do with it-Mae West. OOPS I meant "Goodness"!! Silent Otto's technique of rising inside the convoy to do fearful execution is akin really to suicide shooter with a certain time span to wreak havoc before the SWAT approaches.

I am not discussing Kretschmer's genius here. For sure his superb strategical awareness helped him into reducing at maximum any negative factor. But you will admit that a 100% success rate (especially during the early days, when torpedoes were affected by any sort of problem), still required a good dose of luck. I have read many U-boat patrol accounts and, if not the rule, ships requiring two or even three fishes before sinking completely, were quite common.