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Doolar · 11-18-18, 11:47 PM

Where do I Sign up for the Eastern Front. First of all, let me set cha up. I'm currently playing in a Type IXb sub out of Lorient. It's September 21, 1942 and I'm patrolling off the east coast of the United States in grid CA61. I've been at sea for 51 days and in grid CA61 for 11 days. there is plenty of in-bound and out-bound traffic in spite of the fact I've only sunk 5 ships for 28,856 tons. It seems that most of my sound contacts are always "long range" and past me. Motor boating around to catch up is not logical, and probably unrealistic, due to fuel consumption concerns. I have found a sweet spot in the very lower left hand corner of CA61, and I've parked my boat there and set up my ambushes. Oh and by the way, the air traffic is heavy and it seems as if there are these little patrols of 1 or 2 warships ( destroyers ) making endless runs at me too. Lots of non-stop action. Well anyway, I had 9 torpedoes remaining and along comes 2 merchants, one being an American Ore Carrier and another smaller ship in line. I do manual targeting most of the time but since I wanted to nail both ships I used Weapons Officer Assistance for this attack. So I lined up as close to 90 degrees to their tracks as I could, and was about 2.1 Km's in range. Got the shooting solution from my WO for the first ship and fired 2 torpedoes. Got the shooting solution for the second ship and fired 2 more. Then waited and watched with the <> keys. I love to watch the explosions. NOTHING ! Missed all 4 shots. And by the way the weather was ok, overcast, no rain, moderate visibility and 7ms. Darn ! Then I did something I probably shouldn't have done, but I turned 180 and still got a good shooting solution and fired …. NOTHING ! Now with only 3 torpedoes left, I had no choice but to dive to 40 meters and reload, losing all opportunity's of nailing these guys. So after reloading my remaining FWD Tube and both AFT Tubes, I retreated, surfaced and recharged my batteries. Now you ask what else could go wrong, well …. after an hour or so on the surface, I received a RADIO MESSAGE informing me of a LARGE CONVOY in, you guessed it, CA61, and the big black square popped up. I measured, it was only 60 Km's away and headed straight to me. With only 3 torpedoes left, I'm not going to do too much damage. I would love to have those 6 waisted Torpedoes back. But anyway I've kind'a set myself up to fire the 2 AFT Tubes, and set my escape run pointed to France. I'll most likely hit the resupply boat U-461 ( I think that's the boat out there in the middle of the Atlantic ), pick up a few T-1's and a splash of fuel and ride one of the convoy lines back and maybe pick off another ship or 2, if I'm lucky. Man I love this game !!!

11-18-18, 11:47 PM	#1
Doolar Expert Shipsinker Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Baltimore,Md./ CA45 Posts: 803 Downloads: 360 Uploads: 0	Where do I Sign up for the Eastern Front Where do I Sign up for the Eastern Front. First of all, let me set cha up. I'm currently playing in a Type IXb sub out of Lorient. It's September 21, 1942 and I'm patrolling off the east coast of the United States in grid CA61. I've been at sea for 51 days and in grid CA61 for 11 days. there is plenty of in-bound and out-bound traffic in spite of the fact I've only sunk 5 ships for 28,856 tons. It seems that most of my sound contacts are always "long range" and past me. Motor boating around to catch up is not logical, and probably unrealistic, due to fuel consumption concerns. I have found a sweet spot in the very lower left hand corner of CA61, and I've parked my boat there and set up my ambushes. Oh and by the way, the air traffic is heavy and it seems as if there are these little patrols of 1 or 2 warships ( destroyers ) making endless runs at me too. Lots of non-stop action. Well anyway, I had 9 torpedoes remaining and along comes 2 merchants, one being an American Ore Carrier and another smaller ship in line. I do manual targeting most of the time but since I wanted to nail both ships I used Weapons Officer Assistance for this attack. So I lined up as close to 90 degrees to their tracks as I could, and was about 2.1 Km's in range. Got the shooting solution from my WO for the first ship and fired 2 torpedoes. Got the shooting solution for the second ship and fired 2 more. Then waited and watched with the <> keys. I love to watch the explosions. NOTHING ! Missed all 4 shots. And by the way the weather was ok, overcast, no rain, moderate visibility and 7ms. Darn ! Then I did something I probably shouldn't have done, but I turned 180 and still got a good shooting solution and fired …. NOTHING ! Now with only 3 torpedoes left, I had no choice but to dive to 40 meters and reload, losing all opportunity's of nailing these guys. So after reloading my remaining FWD Tube and both AFT Tubes, I retreated, surfaced and recharged my batteries. Now you ask what else could go wrong, well …. after an hour or so on the surface, I received a RADIO MESSAGE informing me of a LARGE CONVOY in, you guessed it, CA61, and the big black square popped up. I measured, it was only 60 Km's away and headed straight to me. With only 3 torpedoes left, I'm not going to do too much damage. I would love to have those 6 waisted Torpedoes back. But anyway I've kind'a set myself up to fire the 2 AFT Tubes, and set my escape run pointed to France. I'll most likely hit the resupply boat U-461 ( I think that's the boat out there in the middle of the Atlantic ), pick up a few T-1's and a splash of fuel and ride one of the convoy lines back and maybe pick off another ship or 2, if I'm lucky. Man I love this game !!!