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[Vince82]

Awesome! Some pics would be nice indeed.

[VONHARRIS]

Originally Posted by Laufen zum Ziel

I hope that Idaho Fish and Game do not allow explosive devices to catch fish.
Send us a photo so we can confirm that there are no tubes on your bow.

Or depth charge rails on your stern!

Happy sailing and happy hunting

[Vince82]

Originally Posted by Walter Kurtz

As we all know the majority of u-boat successes against shipping in convoy occured at night. I have, for eight years now, tried the Kretchmer tactics (submerging in front of the convoy, drifting in silent mode then surfacing within the convoy and then attacking) and no matter what year of game play I get zapped by armed merchants. Does anyone out there have some advice on night surface attacks?

Fred.

I'm planning to play some early war patrols too and try the surface attacks. I never tried while using the h.sie patch.

It's not like I got tired of being sunk in 1942 and 1943 (and quick too). Attacking heavily defended convoys proved to be suicidal the way I did it and way I have sh3 tweaked. Next time I need to use different tactics. And wait until I can get albrich and even better a Type VIIc41, before doing something too dicey. At least I found out that radar warning can be tweaked and modded to simulate almost a 100% (if you are a fan of the black may thing, like me ).

About what you where asking Fred. I think you should not try to surface in the middle of a convoy when it consist of armed merchants. You got to expect to be spotted very soon not only because of the close proximity but also you will get silhouetted and moonlight reflection.

The way I understand is kretchmer only did this when the convoy was attacked by a wolfpack and the escorts were mostly distracted by the other u-boats attacking from outside the convoy. He did this as you know because that way he could attack from point blank range.

If you don't attack in a wolfpack I would say that it's better to attack from the sides of the convoy because that way you can often remain undetected. But it depends on the circumstances, less moonlight and clouds should be better.

[Vince82]

Let me start out with saying that U-97 has regained contact with the convoy. But how that works out I'll will see tomorrow.

The convoy battle (well one uboat vs the monster as I was ordered to attack alone). Dolphins and black swans circling around me and depth charges falling down. Yes, exactly when I got depthcharged by two black swan class sloops, I get dolphin sounds on my hydrophone.