Newbie question: C2 One shot kill

High Voltage · 02-05-07, 11:13 AM

Your torps will go wherever you aim your scope's crosshairs...so make sure you unlock your scope when you're almost ready to fire, put the sight somewhere between 355 and 05 degrees and wait for the part of the ship you are aiming for to cross that exact mark...LOS!!! (of course you opened and flooded your tubes already, right?)

Corsair · 02-05-07, 05:37 PM

I would add imho that you should not put it anywhere between 355 and 5 because it depends of target speed/distance as well from torpedo speed.
Your best bet when possible is to put your crosshair where the TDC will give you a 0° gyroangle (read it under the notepad) This means your torpedoes will go straight out. It can be more than 10° sometimes...

jpm1 · 02-05-07, 06:40 PM

I noticed that with magnetic trigger one can have a greater angle . you can sink anyship with one torpedoe you have to hit the boiler the site differs according to ships .that what happened in real with the "sadly known" (or not depends on which side one places itself) Lusitania which made 30000t the commandant of the U-boat had only one torpedoe left he hits the boiler room as the ship was at the end of its way rhe coal room was empty and the coal dust reacted to the explosion as black powder would have done it the ship has litteraly been desintegreted later others said that in fact such an explosion couldn t have been made only by a weapons load Lusitania Wikipedia

Corsair · 02-06-07, 04:17 AM

The good thing about magnetic trigger is that you're free from angle problems. The bad thing is that it must have the right depth in regard to draft of target (which can lead to misses in rough weather when the draft is always changing) and you increase chances for premature explosion. I don't use them before 1941 and only by calm seas.
Although you increase the chances for a "one shot sinking", I find it is balanced by a higher percentage of misses.

alamwuhk2a · 02-06-07, 08:47 AM

I found it before 1940, the steam torpedo T I has a more stable magnetic piston that the electric torpedo T II. Is that true?

Abd_von_Mumit · 02-06-07, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by alamwuhk2a

I found it before 1940, the steam torpedo T I has a more stable magnetic piston that the electric torpedo T II. Is that true?

I don't know, but it _could_ be true. The TI torpedo usually moves faster, so it's more likely to detect ship's magnetical field (rule is simple - faster relative movement means bigger field fluctuations in the same amount of time, and that means that the trigger would be better informed about presence of the ship).

But this is only a hipothesis, as I don't know details of the magnetic triggers. It could be that their detector was designed to detect ship's magnetic field without any need to move while detecting. Not sure.

birdy · 02-06-07, 09:55 AM

that shipcard is very handy

but how can i see what those coloured boxes mean??
for example what means the green box?

02-05-07, 11:13 AM	#1
High Voltage Chief Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: U-33. Depth Charges...sinking.. Posts: 325 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Your torps will go wherever you aim your scope's crosshairs...so make sure you unlock your scope when you're almost ready to fire, put the sight somewhere between 355 and 05 degrees and wait for the part of the ship you are aiming for to cross that exact mark...LOS!!! (of course you opened and flooded your tubes already, right?) __________________ The new-moon night is black as ink. Off Hatteras the tankers sink. While sadly Roosevelt counts the score-- Some fifty thousand tons--by MOHR

02-05-07, 05:37 PM	#2
Corsair Ace of the Deep Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Toulouse France Posts: 1,140 Downloads: 51 Uploads: 0	I would add imho that you should not put it anywhere between 355 and 5 because it depends of target speed/distance as well from torpedo speed. Your best bet when possible is to put your crosshair where the TDC will give you a 0° gyroangle (read it under the notepad) This means your torpedoes will go straight out. It can be more than 10° sometimes... __________________ NYGM 3.4A / Living SH3 V5.1 + SH3 Commander

02-06-07, 04:17 AM	#4
Corsair Ace of the Deep Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Toulouse France Posts: 1,140 Downloads: 51 Uploads: 0	The good thing about magnetic trigger is that you're free from angle problems. The bad thing is that it must have the right depth in regard to draft of target (which can lead to misses in rough weather when the draft is always changing) and you increase chances for premature explosion. I don't use them before 1941 and only by calm seas. Although you increase the chances for a "one shot sinking", I find it is balanced by a higher percentage of misses. __________________ NYGM 3.4A / Living SH3 V5.1 + SH3 Commander

02-06-07, 08:47 AM	#5
alamwuhk2a Helmsman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Hong Kong Posts: 107 Downloads: 12 Uploads: 0	I found it before 1940, the steam torpedo T I has a more stable magnetic piston that the electric torpedo T II. Is that true? __________________ Come from the secret Hong Kong U-boat base

02-05-07, 06:40 PM	#3
jpm1 Captain Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 544 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	I noticed that with magnetic trigger one can have a greater angle . you can sink anyship with one torpedoe you have to hit the boiler the site differs according to ships .that what happened in real with the "sadly known" (or not depends on which side one places itself) Lusitania which made 30000t the commandant of the U-boat had only one torpedoe left he hits the boiler room as the ship was at the end of its way rhe coal room was empty and the coal dust reacted to the explosion as black powder would have done it the ship has litteraly been desintegreted later others said that in fact such an explosion couldn t have been made only by a weapons load Lusitania Wikipedia

02-06-07, 09:55 AM	#7
birdy Helmsman Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 101 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	that shipcard is very handy but how can i see what those coloured boxes mean?? for example what means the green box?