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Originally Posted by CptGlub
I'm experiencing a situation where rough water is actually a bad thing. I've stripped off the escorts from a 9 ship convoy. They travel in a tight 3x3 formation. Have done an end-around set up three times. Because the water is so rough, my sub is exposed as the swell travels over me at peri depth. With 9 ships so close to me, somebody always spots me and they do the headless chicken fire drill.
The rough water makes the deck gun problematic, not to mention the wall of in-coming ordnance from so many merchants.
I'm actually having to shadow the convoy waiting for calmer water that won't expose my position.
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To avoid being spotted in heavy seas, you might try staying submerged a little deeper than periscope depth. Watch the sonar, then come back up at the last moment to attack.
If you want to stay submerged (as much as possible), but the waves keep washing over your periscope, spoiling your aim, try manually setting your depth to shallower than periscope depth, or set it to radar depth. You'll be more visible but you'll have a better view.
You can also attack from below periscope depth using only sonar. (You can't go too deep or the torpedo tubes will close - 100 ft? I'm not sure.) Once you have done it once or twice it's not much different from using the periscope. The easy way is to set it up with the scope at longer range where you won't be seen, then just use sonar to pull the trigger. The harder way is to use sonar to set it up. There are one or two video demonstrations here on Subsim (in the Skipper's bag of Tricks, I think), and also on YouTube.
Attacking via sonar can be used to stay hidden, so they can't see you - but it is ALSO very useful when you can't see them, due to fog, weather, fog, darkness, fog, or damaged periscopes. Or fog. (It's really useful in fog.)