Torpedos...low on fuel?

nomdeplume · 07-25-07, 05:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Suicide Charlie

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Originally Posted by Jmack

anyway why setting them to fast speed ? ... its not SH3 even if the torpedo was painted yellow with bright lights the ships dont change direction untill hit.

Not true in my experience actually.

I've only seen ships change course when they become aware of your sub in SH4, and once or twice because they happened to reach a waypoint and changed course to head toward the next one. I distinctly remember DD's in SH3 speeding up or slowing down in an effort to avoid incoming torpedos, but I've never seen that in SH4. They do make a lot of semi random speed changes as part of their normal ASW behaviour, but it's not quite the same.

Not that I don't want this to be true, but I've never seen a Japanese vessel appear at all concerned about the wakes streaming toward them. Perhaps they figure all the American torpedos are duds, anyway. Anyone else seen this?

SteamWake · 07-25-07, 10:31 AM

If your torpedoes are running out of steam (or batteries) before reaching their targets your taking shots from WAY to far out.

In all the time Ive been playing Ive only had one torp come up short of its target and that was because I lined up the wrong column of the convoy

Preamature detonations are another thing. If the torpedo suddenly dissapears from the screen most likely it was a premie. If the sort of slow and stop but remain on the screen ... they ran out of fuel.

07-25-07, 10:31 AM	#2
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	If your torpedoes are running out of steam (or batteries) before reaching their targets your taking shots from WAY to far out. In all the time Ive been playing Ive only had one torp come up short of its target and that was because I lined up the wrong column of the convoy Preamature detonations are another thing. If the torpedo suddenly dissapears from the screen most likely it was a premie. If the sort of slow and stop but remain on the screen ... they ran out of fuel.