I will try these techniques, but I get the feeling I will enjoy my torpedoes more when I play against chaos. I will try the dictator some more; it is one of the few ships that has completely failed me so far, but to be fair I have only fielded it against eldar in a 750pt game, so it can still redeem itself. The other two are my lance dauntless, the pair of which has only hit 2 in two rounds of prow firing so far (as in 2 hit from 12 lance shots...ouch) and my mars (which, to be fair, was played in some of m first games, and I always forgot to reload the poor thing...). I have heard mention that mars are better in pairs, but that seems like a lot of points for a support ship (i.e. at least 540 without option out of a 1500pt list). Also find that the mars is a bullet soak. And not in the good way, I mean it eats bullets and the DIES.