Torpedo Firing

[Munchausen]

Germans had problems with magnetic exploders but disabled the function early in the war. Americans had problems with similar exploders but the Navy Brass refused to believe the exploders were at fault ... instead placing blame for poor performance on the skippers.

American torps ran, on average, 11 feet deeper than their setting because trials were done with dummy warheads ... and the dummies were too light. Circular runs were blamed on an early function that was supposed to be disabled: the ability to set a torpedo so that it would circle back and hit a pursuing DD (pre-war tactics always had the sub firing while submerged ... the surface attack made circular run a dangerous gambit).

P.S. The easiest method of picking your point of impact (on the target) is to use the O'Kane procedure.

[Niedziak]

I have newest version without mods. I'm playing canpaing from the beginning with externals views only on (i have duds turned on) and experience no problems with torpedoes. Game is too easy. I have no duds od strangly moving torpedoes so far, with is rather annoying because game is too easy and unrealistic

[Munchausen]

Originally Posted by Niedziak

Game is too easy. I have no duds....

Try this link:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=125529

But be careful what you wish for.

[Ducimus]

Really sucks that it is so different from SH3.
Is this historically accurate?
Could the German's spread their torps by the periscope and the American's couldn't?

TDC in SH4 is historically accurate. Both could fire salvo's, but as sailor steve mentioned, its the torpedomen who fire the fish. Not the TDC. It just had a selector switch that notified crewman what tubes to fire when the order was given. If one was to compare the US and German TDC, i think the US TDC is acutally superior. It was one of the first analog computers and could track a target and predict its position based on information feed to it. German TDC's could not do this.

They weren't as luxurious as the US boats, but they could dive nearly twice as deep as their US counterparts.

Also, does anyone know what the red indicator line on the deep depth guage is for?? Is that meant to be you're crush depth or something?

US subs diving ability is, generally, underestimated. True, most uboat types could dive deeper, but not "twice as deep". Particuarly where the Balao and Tench class is concerned. (boats so well built, they were still in service well into the cold war). How deep US subs could go, is really a matter of conjecture. For the most part depth gauges stopped at 450 feet, and US command often reprimanded the sub captain who took his boat below test depth without a VERY good reason or excuse. So how deep they sometimes went, is often glossed over. Test depth BTW, is whats indicated by the red needle. you can go deeper. Test depth is not to be confused with crush depth. Whats the crush depth? Im not saying.

I took a Narwal class boat down to that depth with no problems at all. But I couldnt go any deeper. Each time i brought the planes to dive ,the dive crew brought the boat back upto the red dial, to 250 feet.

Theres a button with the tooltip, "Dive planes to deep dive".Similary SHIFT+ D will do the same. The D key itself will always bring you to your subs test depth.
As for the Narwhals depth at 450 feet, when diving deep, stand in the conning tower. That is where hull stress will show first. NOT in the control room.