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Old 01-17-19, 10:10 AM   #16
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I have been in fog banks where I can make out the silhouette of the ship...

Three straight patrols off Honshu, in fog and/or rain. Came back with a full load of torpedoes each time, nailing merchies with the deck gun and playing the equivalent of Marco Polo in the fog.



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Old 01-17-19, 06:56 PM   #17
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Three straight patrols off Honshu, in fog and/or rain. Came back with a full load of torpedoes each time, nailing merchies with the deck gun and playing the equivalent of Marco Polo in the fog.
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Watch your sonar bearings. You can plot it on the map time the distance traveled and you can determine the speed. Then you can take a shot since you will know the distance to target with speed of the fish and you will know how long it will take for it to get there. You can also just get really close and take an estimated guess. I love doing this in fog. They know you are there they just can't do anything about it.
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Copy all; to be honest it's a lack of confidence in my skills regarding getting good hits with my fish.


Patrol 12 of this 4th career marks the first time that I have sunk a ship using my torpedoes, and only the second time that I have scored a hit with the fish. Part of that has to do with what I recall from how the things worked historically, but to be honest it been more or less all about my skills with the fish.




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as a consolation prize, you can surface beside an AC and hose down his flight deck with your flak gun(s) it works really well if you have the HE shells loaded. The aircraft suddenly develop a VTOL capability. An AC only has 2 little poopers at bow and stern so you might get away it without being hit if you make a run at max speed.
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