But the advice up there is good too half the time you're going to have to shell the buggers to oblivion. If you do use the MK 14's, set it to Contact-only, or the things will detonate prematurely sometimes. The electric detonators suck, frankly, and the only options is to go contact. What I've read, and what I've done is take MK 10's (MK 14's work too, but i like the reliability of the MK 10s), set depth to zero, and launch 1 or 2. The MK 14's were damned useless all around, in history and in my experience in the game. The Mark 10's were better than the Mark 14s they were slower, had less range, had a smaller warhead, but they usually went off. What an awesome game! I'm loving every second of it. Or, maybe a mix - 2 high, 1 low where if either the low one or both of the high ones hit you have a decent chance to sink.

I could do 3 torps shallow, where they are apparently more likely to hit, but less likely to cause catastrophic damage still, if enough of them hit, the total damage might be enough to sink her. I could do, say 3 torps deep, hoping that at least one of them figures out the right depth and hits under the hull, hopefully breaking it. So I'm wondering now what the best tactic would be if I REALLY want to ensure a kill. Before you ask, yes, I did ID the vessel correctly, and did set depth to about 30% less than her typical draft depth. I've had more than a few torpedos go under the hull without exploding. The fun thing with setting torps to go deeper is that they are not exact, and proximity detonators seem to not like working a lot of the time. Thanks, I figured out the depth thing yesterday after posting the questions. Now I'm tempted to do salvos of 4 - with one or two missing or malfunctioning, and the remainder hopefully sinking the target. I've been doing salvos of 2 so far, figuring one will probably miss, malfunction and go off course, or fail to detonate, but the 1 hit should be enough. If it's normal, then it'd seem the tactic to use when destroyers are present would be to salvo with as many tubes as possible.

Is what I'm describing about par for the course, or am I doing something wrong? I'm using Mark 10s, by the way, since that's the only choice for my S-class. I know the early torpedos had trouble with duds, but these hits connected and caused a visible explosion. I've encountered three of them so far in the career:ДЎ sunk immediately on impact in midsectionДЎ impact from behind in the rudder/propeller area caused reduction of speed, but stayed afloat and mobile caught and sunk by cannon fire during a surface chase at 6 knotsДЎ impact in midsection had no noticable effect sunk by cannon fire at long range while fleeing at 10 knots. Even the little old 2400t Old Split Freighters have survived my hits on several occasions. I'm also not just talking about massive modern freighters. Playing the tutuorial convoy attack mission, I expended all of my torpedo stores, fore and aft, with about half or more of them hitting, but failed to sink even a single ship. In many lets plays I've seen people sinking their targets in one hit, but when I play, most of the time they keep going after a solid hit.

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