These Cruisers are Smart! -DOH!

[U-TigerShark]

how do you select different parts of ships to fire at, like magazine, fuel engines or is it only a GWX thing ??

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by U-TigerShark

how do you select different parts of ships to fire at, like magazine, fuel engines or is it only a GWX thing ??

Its a stock thing. Instead of using the L key to lock onto a target just move the cross hair reticle on the periscope or uzo to the part of the ship you want to target then fire a torpedo. Assuming you have WO assist on that is. If you are using manual targetting then you'll need to get the right data entered into the TDC before firing.

[U-TigerShark]

how do i get the Weapons officer to assist ??

[UnterseeBoogeyMan]

Originally Posted by U-TigerShark

how do i get the Weapons officer to assist ??

It has to be enabled in your settings and he has to be in the control room. otherwise, I dont think it works. this is a GWX thing, but very handy; if you get within 1000 meters and within 15 degrees port or starboard of your target as close to 90 degrees aob as possible, you will see in the ship manual several parts of ship come up. you will see ammo rooms, fuel tanks, engine rooms. if you want to economize your torpedoes, very very usefull.

[Amiral Crapaud]

Smart ships like that can be more easily taken care of if you add manually some lead, knowing from the start they are the "quick" type.

Attacking the Hunt on the convoy qualification training mission is quite handy in this case to "test" the AI. One has to shoot a good torpedo, or more preferably a spread, at the right distance in front of the target, for her to run into the torpedo while she specifically tried to avoid it by speeding up. I find this kind of vicious attacks rather satisfactory

[BarjackU977]

I aslo use mostly T1s, set to run at full speed. The very high speed makes it hard to miss a hit

[Steel_Tomb]

i prefer the steamers, because you can fire all your fish at once but have them on different speed settings, so they impact more or less at the same time, while I'm already at 100m going further so the DD's never even pick me up. saying that I will use electric fish for big warships otherwise they will speed up, especially for BB's or CV's because the destroyer screen will see the steamers before they get close enough to the target thus missing it completely.