Magnetic Detonator Range??

[Admiral Halsey]

I for one never try for a keel shot. I don't trust myself well enough to risk it.

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by Admiral Halsey

I for one never try for a keel shot. I don't trust myself well enough to risk it.

With my mod(esp the new version pending release) they are pretty impossible as they were during first part of war due to depth control issues.Once that is solved can pull them off, when they work, they are great.They might not seem to caught damage at first but they do, love it when take ship out with one torpedo or when work on a big target like a battleship, explode 2-4 torpedoes under a BB's keel, likely to take it out, minus the Yamato.

[Admiral Halsey]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

With my mod(esp the new version pending release) they are pretty impossible as they were during first part of war due to depth control issues.Once that is solved can pull them off, when they work, they are great.They might not seem to caught damage at first but they do, love it when take ship out with one torpedo or when work on a big target like a battleship, explode 2-4 torpedoes under a BB's keel, likely to take it out, minus the Yamato.

I've never had to use more then three torps on a BB other then the Yamato/Musashi.

[TorpX]

You may as well just guess. Does anyone really know how the game models it? A battleship should have a much larger and stronger magnetic field than a small merchant, but does it?

[Bilge_Rat]

I was looking at this for another reason, found out the mag range in TMO is 2 meters, in RFB its only 1.5 meters.

I use the RFB dud file in my instal.

[merc4ulfate]

I find sinking a Battleship with three torpedoes very unrealistic. Now after saying that it did happen with as few as two.

The Kongo was the only Battleship sunk by a torpedo in the Pacific theater and was hit by two of three torpedoes fire by the USS Sealion.

From the Wiki:

On 20 November, they [ Yamato, Nagato and the rest of the First Fleet] entered the Formosa Strait. Shortly after midnight on 21 November, the submarine USS Sealion made radar contact with the fleet at 44,000 yards. Maneuvering into position at 03:00, Sealion fired three stern torpedoes at Nagato and Kongō. One minute later, two torpedoes were seen to hit Kongō on the port side, while the third sank the destroyer Urakaze with all hands. The torpedoes flooded two of Kongō's boiler rooms, but she was still able to make 16 knots (18 mph). By 05:00, she had slowed to 11 kn (13 mph) and broken off from the rest of the fleet. At 05:20, she lost all power. Four minutes later, the blip indicating Kongō on Sealion's radar disappeared. Kongō sank in 350 feet (110 m) of water with the loss of 1,200 of her crew, including the commander of the Third Battleship Division and her captain. She was the only Japanese battleship sunk by submarine in the Second World War, and the last battleship sunk by submarine in history.

Her sinking was only one out of three battleship sinkings in World War II caused by a submarine attack, the two others were the British Revenge-class battleship HMS Royal Oak and the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship HMS Barham.

[Admiral Halsey]

Originally Posted by merc4ulfate

I find sinking a Battleship with three torpedoes very unrealistic. Now after saying that it did happen with as few as two.

The Kongo was the only Battleship sunk by a torpedo in the Pacific theater and was hit by two of three torpedoes fire by the USS Sealion.

From the Wiki:

On 20 November, they [ Yamato, Nagato and the rest of the First Fleet] entered the Formosa Strait. Shortly after midnight on 21 November, the submarine USS Sealion made radar contact with the fleet at 44,000 yards. Maneuvering into position at 03:00, Sealion fired three stern torpedoes at Nagato and Kongō. One minute later, two torpedoes were seen to hit Kongō on the port side, while the third sank the destroyer Urakaze with all hands. The torpedoes flooded two of Kongō's boiler rooms, but she was still able to make 16 knots (18 mph). By 05:00, she had slowed to 11 kn (13 mph) and broken off from the rest of the fleet. At 05:20, she lost all power. Four minutes later, the blip indicating Kongō on Sealion's radar disappeared. Kongō sank in 350 feet (110 m) of water with the loss of 1,200 of her crew, including the commander of the Third Battleship Division and her captain. She was the only Japanese battleship sunk by submarine in the Second World War, and the last battleship sunk by submarine in history.

Her sinking was only one out of three battleship sinkings in World War II caused by a submarine attack, the two others were the British Revenge-class battleship HMS Royal Oak and the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship HMS Barham.

Well considering that two of the three BB's sunk by submarine only needed two-three torps it seems realistic to me. Plus you have top remember that Japan's BB's were a bit top heavy.