Bendrago

Mate, the ship in the picture is supposed to be 142 meters long, use that as a reference point and calculate the distance. Even correcting for perspective (angle) those torpedoes were not dropped 300+ meters away, your logic is that since they armed they had to be launched over 300 meters away, well guess what, they were not. Yes it was stupid that I did not take a picture from straight above but you can easily see in the picture just by the trails of the torpedoes that they were much much closer than 300m

Eh ? sorry are you trolling ?? look at the picture and read the text again will you ? I was less than 100m from the island, in that less than 100m torpedoes managed to drop there, arm and hit me, again in less than 100m ! If I had turned starboard it wouldn't change the outcome at all, or are you implying that there is a magic difference between 100m and say 80m ? when the arming range (from what I have understood) should be 300m and also my stern would have the same distance to the torpedo drop point no matter where I turn. So if islands cant be used as a defence against torpedoes presumeably it should be ok also if other ships could shoot thru them ? it's not like the torpedoes are coming from front or back of the ship, they are coming from the island side ...

If you look at the picture you will notice that I am going full speed (minus the speed I lost from turning) in the minimap you see that I was closing on the enemy carriers, I was zig zagging those planes for a while and then since they were after zig zagging on the opposite side of the island I used it as a cover while at the same time closing in on the carriers, it's not like I parked the ship behind an island. It is not a question about how often we see those drops, the point is that those kind of drops are possible and they should not be.

And that is what I did, I put an island between them and me, if you look at the picture you will notice that I started to turn away as soon as the torpedoes hit water, now look at the distance from my stern to the island and using that as a guide place the ship parallel with the island and then think of the distance between the island and the ship ... and still planes had no problem dropping the torpedoes ...

My .02 .... planes drop torpedoes between the island and me, even with a cruiser absolutely no chance to evade them, distance from drop to hit under 100m .... seriously ?