why should anyone use a torp?

[gofaster]

Originally posted by BlkKnit
Yeah, John Wayne fixed 'em

"Operation Pacific" - the first submarine movie I can remember watching on late-night television.  There was another late-night submarine film with Erroll Flynn I think but I can't remember much about it other than the ending scene of the sub steaming under the Golden Gate Bridge on its way to port.

[lasersailor184]

Do some bombs work better on a carrier then others?

[Flyboy]

well, just tested it offline, it takes 5 500Kgs torpedos to sink a cv

[Grimm]

I dont think Torpeedees are very effective in the MA.  

However,  In events Torpedoes can be use very succefully with trained,  disiplined flights of Torpedee planes.    I was one of the COs in the Midway scenario a while back,  Both sides learned that torpedoes can work will with the proper tactics.    

In the MA it would take a very trained squad, with good escort and interceptors,  to make a serious attack.    In my opinion, a lone guy or two has a better chance with bombs.

[rogerdee]

in ozkanzas  you can have fun at pearl harbour  if you are then m e.
  My side were trying to capture it  but a few of us guys were having fun sinking the battleships,although the guys capturing didnt find it so amusing  
  coming in low over the harbour heading tp a ship and drooping torps  was fun

[rogerdee]

in ozkanzas  you can have fun at pearl harbour  if you are then m e.
  My side were trying to capture it  but a few of us guys were having fun sinking the battleships,although the guys capturing didnt find it so amusing  
  coming in low over the harbour heading tp a ship and drooping torps  was fun

[bockko]

the problem with airborn torpedo attack is the launch paramaters: slow, low, close; you are a sitting duck for aa and cap fighters. A submarine, if positioned correctly, can launch a nice spread without being noticed (at first). Dive bombers can fly faster, higher, and dive down with pin point accuracy.  The survival rate for torpedo runs was low. As pointed out earlier, the dive bomber achieved much greater success than the torpedo bomber. Not sure the overall tonnage sunk by dive bombers vs submarines...though again, the submarine could launch ordnance in areas unreachable by planes.

[Sikboy]

Droping Torps in the MA is something I only ever do for the challenge of it. I know that I would have more success  

We had some great success using Torpedos in the CAP event. One one run, we must have sank 6 DDs on 1 pass with Ju-88s, and in another instance I sank TWO CVs with a Ju-88 formation.

For the Japanese in Events, the Torpedo is about the only hope of equalising the ordanance in a CV battle.

I don't think I've ever taken out a CV with torps in the MA, but I still try every now and again, just because I find it fun.

-Sik

[Zanth]

Unless they changed something, I have sunk CV's a few times with 4 torps from  a PT boat.  I would have done it more but it got boring.

[Soulyss]

AKAIK torpedo's do not cause more damage in AH than a bomb of equal size but I cannot comfirm this, I just have never heard anything to the contrary from HT et al.  

To me torepdo runs were just more fun in AH.  I wasn't about the results but trying to do somthing difficult and feeling really damned good about yourself if you succeeded.  Was actually getting pretty good at eye balling the release point before HT went and took my beloved TBM away.