Torpedo speeds?

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Originally Posted by panzermeyer

This is probably a dumb question, but do the different torpedo speeds have any affect on the torpedo other than changing its speed from slow to fast?

I mean why would you set your torpedo for 'slow' speed anyway? Why not alays have it go as fast as possible?

As you can tell I am a little new. I am not that fimiliar with submarine warfare, however anything else WWII related I am fairly well versed.

Thanks you.

1.- There is no such thing like a "dumb question" That is the purpose of this forum, to ask, answer, help, be helped, learn and help other to understand.
2.- Let me give you a good example of the use of speeds:
You find a nice juicy convoy, it's dark and they are unaware of your presence. You pick the big targets first and fire a first wave of torps at slow speed. While the first wave of torps is onthe way, you will have time to load your tubes and launch a 2 wave at high speed. By doing this, you reduce a lot the time between the 2 waves you launched and while the ships in the convoy are still trying to react to the 1st shock, your 2nd wave is almost there making the pandemonium even bigger. After that, you just run silent and deep to avoid detection and slowly slip away of the area. But most of the times, you will have to do that right after you launch your first wave of torps.
Anyway, i think that is how I use different torp speeds.
WolfOfCampscapel is right too, it depends at what range your target is.
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