baaad weather, baaad, torpedos, baaad calculations

Tolkemec · 08-02-10, 09:13 AM

Hi everyone,

Normally, when I leave Kiel in the winter months, I have calm waters and wind speed of 4 or something, so the sea is like a lake, but EVERYTIME I reach destination, I have wind speeds of 12 to 15, shaking my poor Type II like a cork. I remember reading something once about this being related to high transit TC. Is this true? What shoud I do? Do not go over 128?

I would LOVE a quiet Northern Sea for once. I just missed one torpedo because of a reaaaaaaaally bad range estimate (off by 500 meters or so, rapidly adjusted when I didn't get the sonar report of "short range", that I use to verify my calculations -is this cheating?).

For that shot I used an electric eel set to impact which prematurely exploded... I thought that just happened with magnetic eels... or is also because of the bad sea and just 2,5 -3 meters torpedo run depth (I just lost 2 out of my 5 eels in this forth patrol, I just want to go home in shame).

Thx!!

08-02-10, 09:13 AM	#1
Tolkemec Torpedoman Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: BCN Posts: 118 Downloads: 131 Uploads: 0	baaad weather, baaad, torpedos, baaad calculations Hi everyone, Normally, when I leave Kiel in the winter months, I have calm waters and wind speed of 4 or something, so the sea is like a lake, but EVERYTIME I reach destination, I have wind speeds of 12 to 15, shaking my poor Type II like a cork. I remember reading something once about this being related to high transit TC. Is this true? What shoud I do? Do not go over 128? I would LOVE a quiet Northern Sea for once. I just missed one torpedo because of a reaaaaaaaally bad range estimate (off by 500 meters or so, rapidly adjusted when I didn't get the sonar report of "short range", that I use to verify my calculations -is this cheating?). For that shot I used an electric eel set to impact which prematurely exploded... I thought that just happened with magnetic eels... or is also because of the bad sea and just 2,5 -3 meters torpedo run depth (I just lost 2 out of my 5 eels in this forth patrol, I just want to go home in shame). Thx!!