Torps & Merchant ships...

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Originally Posted by Arctic Fox

Yesterday I had 2 instances where I was aiming for a dd (ordered to take out the convoy escort) and missed but got message that enemy ship was destroyed. In both instances the ships sunk were 3 000+ ton merchants.

Last night I ran into a small convoy with two passenger liners escorted by 4 DD's. I managed to produce my worst TDC solution to date, and fired all six bow tubes in a spread to compensate for the poor solution at the largest passenger liner. Five torps missed aft, and I cursed myself for rushing the approach when the 6th hit in the aft part with a loud WHACK! To my amazement it sank stern first, and while it was going down, one of the torps that missed struck a DD behind the liner and sank it. I was pretty pleased with my luck I must say.