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So what happens when a salvo of torpedoes is fired at a ship from exactly 30cm (for instance)? I know the target takes hits in the ordinance phase, but do the Torps move through the base, or stay there in base contact? If they stay there, does the ship immediately take hits again on it's own movement phase?

The ship will only be hit once by a salvo of Torps.

It is unclear, this is how we play:

When you have finisnhed a salvo of fire you place the torps the other side of the ships engaged, this can result in free movement if no more movement is available.

Your torps will have cleared that distance anyway during their attack run.

So for example if you rake torp fire at a squasdron of escorts line astern in close formation at the end of the salvos resolution you place the remaining torps immediately behind the last ship. This is because all the ships together are targeted together and the torps are sprinting towards targets.

This is taken out of movement allowance avaliable.

Now if the same squadron was seperated even a little then the torps will engage vessels one by one as long as movement points remained, this might not be to your advantage, sure you get more turrets, but you get overkill, its quite possible over half the torps are expended blowing up the first escort. If there is movement remaining the torps continue to the next escort and so on. If an escort survived at the end of the move the torps are advanced behind the ship as they have passed that target.

If tyhere is ghoing to be confusion or unfairness as a reasult such as there is no room for the torp marker to be placed behind ther ship wirthout touching a ship it has no movmernt poiunts to contact then I normally place the trop marker behind the centrepin. This indicates that it has passed the last targetted ship.

with torps and other ordnance it pays to have a visual record of what has gone on rather than rely on memory to determine whether torps in contact have actually engaged or not. A trop salvo on a ships base facing the other way and astern has passed the ship, this is difficult to misread, looks right and makes a whole lot of sense.