UBOAT doesn’t get it right. SH3/5 did with respect to single shots and fan shots.
Generally all tubes were flooded for fire early in the process. Then the order was given for a single shot or series of single shots (“verbundene Einzelschüsse”), or a fan shot (“Fächerschuss”). The selections were made on a switch box beneath the chart table in the control room (on the VII).
Fans were used at longer ranges OR if there was significant uncertainty in target data, the goal being to get at least 1 hit with the assumption that at least one will miss (since the fan covers the entire target length). A series of single shots was used when data was certain, to ensure a valuable target sinks.
The decision to make it how it is in UBOAT is puzzling; the again, I’m constantly puzzled by design decisions vis a vis historical realities in that game…..
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