Torpedo question

[PvK]

Your points about thickly-stacked masses of ships, and second and third ranks being able to fire, are good ones. It depends on the numbers of ships involved, fire tactics used, actual ship positions, speeds, and to-hit mods on both sides. However I have seen end-game battles and simulator situations where range-six weapons would do better than range-eight weapons, at least if the range-eight weapons were on Max Weapon Range strategy. It was pretty clear in the replays this was because they were missing much more at range 7-8 than their opponents were at range 6. If the range-8's are on Point Blank, Short, or maybe even Optimal, though, and Target Nearest, then they shouldn't be firing at 7-8 when they could fire at 6. However, unless you have a skill disadvantage, often the Max Weapon Range strat will beat the more agressive strats, although again it depends on a lot of other factors.

PvK