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by last look do you mean pull the scope down and fire?
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The best video and I can not find it was the community member who showed us how to use the sonar only to fire torps. This guy never saw the ship at all. He was dead on just using sonar and pinging the ship. Set up the TDC and completely nailed it. The scope never went up. Much the same with the scope. Get you calculation, set up the TDC, drop scope. Fire when ready
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No doubt 2500-3000 yard shot work. But, the margin for error is greater than working in closely for more accurate range, AOB and speed estimates. We are offered the spread with TDC to help offset small errors in our calculations. In my experience the spread angles should be used with the longer shots and no spread on the 1500 yard or less shots. Also, I use slow setting on my torps unless it is DD that can manuever a bit faster than the fat old merchant. Most like the fast torp all the time. I use slow setting when I'm in close. If I'm 1500 yards or more, I set torps to fast. But that is just me. Everyone has their own way to handle the torps.[/quote] Warhawk, that is a great point on when to use the spread, I am going to use your rule of thumb. At 1500 yds, what degree spread would you recomend? I am curious about your torp speed settings. Why you think slow settings on the torps for close shots are advantageous? |
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I always use the fast setting (I might switch to slow if I was attacking invasion forces standing still in shallows, though), and I almost always fire a spread. 3 or more at any warship, at least two at all but the smallest merchant.
Why? Because they did in RL, I don't care what it does to my hit %. tater |
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They also always used the standard speed. (Its not modeled in the game but the reason is it had less of a wake)
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Actually there is one secret to hitting just about everything you shoot at. That is getting as close as you can. Learned it from Baron von Richthofen. I defy you to miss from 500 yards. I seldom take a shot from outside 700 yards. Being careful to take such shots I can hit a ship with all three sonar only fired torpedes in a 1½º spread bow, center, stern just about every time.
If you're that close they can turn, they can accellerate or decellerate and they're pretty much toast anyway, especially if you fire a spread. I usually fire center, 1½º toward the stern, then 1½º toward the bow. Sometimes on small ships I'll only fire 2. I shoot one when firing at destroyers. They only get shot in dire circumstances and AOB 0º or 180º. I'm out for tonnage, not tin cans. One hit and they're done anyway.
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That tactic would work for a single target or a single column convoy...but not a double or triple column convoy.
You need range to fire the torps at the farthest ships first, then fire at the closer ones last.
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