Question about firing a "Spread" or "Fan Shot"

Eagle Eye · 02-28-07, 02:32 AM

I seldom use fan shots unless a target is zig zagging. If you want to fire multiple shots quickly at a target... decide how many fish to use, then switch to a salvo using that many fish, take note of the tubes selected in the salvo, open your doors then change to single fire, the doors opened for the salvo stay open just make sure you fire the correct tubes. This way you can fire in rapid succesion without having to wait for each torpedo door to open and you can aim each shot where you want it to go.

Zero Niner · 02-28-07, 04:55 AM

I see. So the concept of firing a spread is like a shot gun.
Thanks for clearing it up.
Too used to being a "sniper" if you know what I mean.

danurve · 02-28-07, 09:29 AM

Well one thing's for sure, the default spread degree is a waste.

I have used tubes 2&4 or 1&3 on targets before, depending on what they are of course and adjusting the depth and pistol first. I've use both spreads on sucessfull convoy attacks as well, but in most all cases never more then .5 on the spread.
To narrow? Perhaps, but it works and so I like it.

Jimbuna · 02-28-07, 09:48 AM

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Yea - i've never trusted the salvo fire functionality. Rather, I fire my own spread firing the tubes one at a time

My preferred method too

CaptainAsh · 02-28-07, 09:58 AM

I almost always using salvo of 2 (tube 1 & 3 with type I and tube 2 & 4 with type II). But I m not using salvo to have one 1 hit on 2, I always expect to score 2 hits (even if dud torpedo happened...) or exeptionaly with salvo of 3 for Large Merchant and salvo of 4 for fast warship which deserve me to shot at (battleship, carrier, you know the fancy stuff

).
In the basic 2 fishs shot, my solution is complete in the computer maybe 30 secondes before I have to free the fishes so I'm ajusting angle less than 5 secondes before firing in a way that the distance between both torpedoes at the impact point should be half the target length. I m not use to notice the actual angle actualy... must be between almost null to 5 ° I guess.
I did my longer range shot yesterday evening, 1500 meters. Wasn t able to close more, that ship was moving 12 knots in an area were surfacing would habe been succide. The angle should have been really close to 0 I guess and both score a hit.

Sailor Steve · 02-28-07, 11:44 AM

I also never use the salvo switch, since in real life they didn't have one. The torpedoes were fired one at a time, even when they called it a salvo, usually about five seconds apart.

AVGWarhawk · 02-28-07, 12:06 PM

Sometimes I salvo with the switch. More often than not I do it individually when at the side of the convoy. Of the 4 sent someone is gonna get hit

02-28-07, 09:29 AM	#3
danurve The Old Man Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Syracuse, NY Posts: 1,481 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 3	Well one thing's for sure, the default spread degree is a waste. I have used tubes 2&4 or 1&3 on targets before, depending on what they are of course and adjusting the depth and pistol first. I've use both spreads on sucessfull convoy attacks as well, but in most all cases never more then .5 on the spread. To narrow? Perhaps, but it works and so I like it. __________________

02-28-07, 11:44 AM	#6
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I also never use the salvo switch, since in real life they didn't have one. The torpedoes were fired one at a time, even when they called it a salvo, usually about five seconds apart. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

02-28-07, 12:06 PM	#7
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,293 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Sometimes I salvo with the switch. More often than not I do it individually when at the side of the convoy. Of the 4 sent someone is gonna get hit __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

02-28-07, 02:32 AM	#1
Eagle Eye Bosun Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 63 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I seldom use fan shots unless a target is zig zagging. If you want to fire multiple shots quickly at a target... decide how many fish to use, then switch to a salvo using that many fish, take note of the tubes selected in the salvo, open your doors then change to single fire, the doors opened for the salvo stay open just make sure you fire the correct tubes. This way you can fire in rapid succesion without having to wait for each torpedo door to open and you can aim each shot where you want it to go.

02-28-07, 04:55 AM	#2
Zero Niner Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,033 Downloads: 69 Uploads: 0	I see. So the concept of firing a spread is like a shot gun. Thanks for clearing it up. Too used to being a "sniper" if you know what I mean.

02-28-07, 09:58 AM	#5
CaptainAsh Machinist's Mate Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 128 Downloads: 12 Uploads: 0	I almost always using salvo of 2 (tube 1 & 3 with type I and tube 2 & 4 with type II). But I m not using salvo to have one 1 hit on 2, I always expect to score 2 hits (even if dud torpedo happened...) or exeptionaly with salvo of 3 for Large Merchant and salvo of 4 for fast warship which deserve me to shot at (battleship, carrier, you know the fancy stuff ). In the basic 2 fishs shot, my solution is complete in the computer maybe 30 secondes before I have to free the fishes so I'm ajusting angle less than 5 secondes before firing in a way that the distance between both torpedoes at the impact point should be half the target length. I m not use to notice the actual angle actualy... must be between almost null to 5 ° I guess. I did my longer range shot yesterday evening, 1500 meters. Wasn t able to close more, that ship was moving 12 knots in an area were surfacing would habe been succide. The angle should have been really close to 0 I guess and both score a hit.