Machine Gun Torpedos in Dreadnought V Cruisers

[Drastab]

I want to say that I would love to have access to what I just saw the AI use against me that being a pair of Battlecruisers with a single hull mounted torpedo launcher launching them in a constant stream against my ship. 

As the battle wound down to the two BCs versus my one remaining  DN, I finally started to land hits against the BCs only to see a pair of torps coming at me from separate angles, as if both had fired one each, on both I see the torp launch indicated showing each is about 25% reloaded.

I am turning full right rudder and see another torpedo, followed by another and another etc, I lost count around the fifteenth torpedo, yet they kept coming, all the while it shows neither BC has reloaded torps yet, luckily I am still turning inside of these, but they are still blasting away at while I cant hit anything in such a wild turn.

Finally I see the lead BC has run out of torps, so maybe now I can try to eek out a victory, when a pair of torps come from too far in front to avoid again and I am dead.

The irritating part is that the lead BC had to be the source, though it was out of torps, nevermind the fact that neither one of them had a double launcher.

So I am throwing the BS flag, I won't say its a cheat since the designer has repeated stated that he detests cheating AI and I choose to believe  that.

However, it is one hell of a beneficial glitch for the AI...I would love the same glitch in my arsenal.

Rant complete

 

(FYI I had managed to take out the two torpedo carrying CAs so I know they didn't launch these.)

[Norbert Sattler]

How fast could those BCs go? Maybe they were almost as fast as their own torpedoes.

For example a 1940s 21" electric torpedo has a bit over 36 kn of speed. You can build a BC that is faster than that, overtake your own torpedo and hit yourself.

If the BC drives pretty much alongside or just slightly behind it's own torpedo, then it will appear as if there was barely any time between launches.

[Alcar]

My first thought was that you were mistaken in some way.

But I just exited a custom battle in which a light cruiser, listed as having just a single underwater tube, fired a spread of three torpedoes at me. Perhaps there is a bug.

[Norbert Sattler]

Are you absolutely sure it only had a single torpedo launcher and not three (or rather six, three on each side) single-barrel launchers?

Because if you are, you should submit a bug-report (with screenshot) if it ever happened again. That should definitely not be possible.

[madham82]

Assuming it is a bug in the launcher, not just AI, you should be able to build your own and reproduce.