Fog is a pain!!!!!

[Spudwiser]

God damn it. I was tracking a massive convoy. I found it at like 3 am (Game time), so i stalked it until day break. At 730 ours i used the free camera and it was as clear as a bell, not even a wave. I checked again at 800 hour and there was FOG everywhere. I had managed to pick off the 2 escorts with torps during the night. I have yet to figure out how the hell i managed that. One of the torps passed right through the middle of the convoy and it the other escort. I was aiming for a pyro ship and missed by a mile. Literally. So anyway because the escorts were no more, i decided to pop up and slaughter some ships with my deck gune when I poped up and slammed into the side of a pyro ammo ship. Man i used the scope and DIDN'T EVEN SEE IT. He game out of no where the little @!&!@^&.

Ok...Calm blue oceans...calm blue oceans.

I probably would not be as sore it i was rammed by a Destroyer but to slam my beautiful VII/B into the side of this MASSIVE ship. I think I even shead a tear.

It's times like this I would KILL for a weather mod. Just to fool around with. Any ideas if one exists? Or if there is a way to disable fog.

God.... I can't believe i did that. Man i feel STUPID. I'm going to bed.... it is now 7 am here and I have yet to sleep. And I know, all I'm going to dream about is slamming into the god forsaken ship. I could picture the captian going "If I go down am takeing you with me ya pr*ck.

Well at least I can blame the fog..... Has anyone else done anthing this bad? Please say yes!

:damn: :damn: :damn: :damn: :damn: :damn: :damn:

[Mooncatt]

fog is your friend:yep:

[STEED]

Fog is sexy :lol:

[Abd_von_Mumit]

Yes, that's true. If you disable the fog you're going to miss it very, very soon. :) Learn to love it.

[RawRecruit]

fog is your friend:yep:

Unless the enemy has radar...:nope:

[Abd_von_Mumit]

fog is your friend:yep:

Unless the enemy has radar...:nope:
Then it's no real difference, if there is fog or not. :)

[Mooncatt]

fog is your friend:yep:

Unless the enemy has radar...:nope:

:rotfl: very true.
what you gotta remember say the enemny doesnt have radar and your on the surface and its foggy he cant see you

[RawRecruit]

fog is your friend:yep:
Unless the enemy has radar...:nope: Then it's no real difference, if there is fog or not. :)

Except you can't see him coming!:o

[Abd_von_Mumit]

fog is your friend:yep:
Unless the enemy has radar...:nope: Then it's no real difference, if there is fog or not. :)

Except you can't see him coming!:o
If he has his radar and I have my anti-radar, I don't wait for him to come. :) If he doesn't use his radar, it's like he didn't have it and the fog is still on my side. He's much larger than me and I'm to see him much sooner than he sees me. A destroyer passed me in 400 metres and didn't notice me thanks to fog. If not the fog, I'd be on the bottom in my fourth career...

[Mooncatt]

very good point mr mumit. what does the anti radar thingy actually do anyway, i nerver got that far into a career to have one lol

[Abd_von_Mumit]

The anti-radar alerts you every time it "hears" a radar signal and (I think) gives you also the bearing from the signal came. Then you know you were probably spotted by aircraft/naval radar, but you still have much plenty of time to go under.

PS I've never been so late in the war too. :) January 1st 1941 is my best achievement.

[Mooncatt]

late 1940 is mine rofl

[RawRecruit]

Yeah, I've never made it past early 1943 (starting from 1941), at which point Metox is no use against centimetric radar. :shifty:

Maybe I'll start a new career in '44 just to see what it's like! :dead:

[Puster Bill]

Yeah, I've never made it past early 1943 (starting from 1941), at which point Metox is no use against centimetric radar. :shifty:

Maybe I'll start a new career in '44 just to see what it's like! :dead:

At that point, if you sink just one ship per patrol, and survive, you are doing excellent.

I started a career in 1943, at Bergen (I wanted a Type XXI when they become available). I made it all the way to December, 1944. Aircraft harass you day and night. You have to schnorkel most of the time, otherwise you will get killed.

Here are my tips for survival:

1. As soon as you can, get a schnorkel, and use it religiously.
2. Get every radar detector you can, as soon as it becomes available (Metox, Wanze, Naxos, etc.)
3. When you get an indication of radar signals, dive immediately, or lower your schnorkel if you are schnorkeling.
4. Do not, under any circumstances, transmit status reports or contact reports to BdU.
5. Avoid convoys. They are bad Ju-ju.
6. Attack lone destroyers, frigates, corvettes, etc. only when the conditions are absolutely favorable.
7. Concentrate on lone merchants. There are still a few of them out there.
8. Attack submerged, always. You probably won't have a deck gun anyway, but if you do, ignore it.
9. If you *MUST* attack a convoy, do it from long range. Fire the bow tubes, turn 180 degrees away from the convoy, fire the stern tubes, then either go very deep or stay at periscope depth, silent running at 2 knots or less.

These hints won't rack up a lot of tonnage, but they will keep you alive for as long as possible.

[IceGrog]

Fog is sexy :lol:
fog is your friend:yep:
i too love the fog

[Iron Budokan]

Fog can be a pain, but it's more help than hurt, really. But, yeah, I still remember one of my first careers when a DD raced out of the fog and cut me in two. I stared at the screen, my jaw agape. I couldn't believe it..... :damn:

[John|Blackthorne]

"schnorkeling"

What does this reffer to exactly?

[Abd_von_Mumit]

"schnorkeling"

What does this reffer to exactly?
Have a look at this thread, explaining the topic to pain level:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=104694&highlight=snorkel
:)

[Paajtor]

I started a career in 1943, at Bergen (I wanted a Type XXI when they become available). I made it all the way to December, 1944. Aircraft harass you day and night. You have to schnorkel most of the time, otherwise you will get killed.

Here are my tips for survival:

1. As soon as you can, get a schnorkel, and use it religiously.
2. Get every radar detector you can, as soon as it becomes available (Metox, Wanze, Naxos, etc.)
3. When you get an indication of radar signals, dive immediately, or lower your schnorkel if you are schnorkeling.
4. Do not, under any circumstances, transmit status reports or contact reports to BdU.
5. Avoid convoys. They are bad Ju-ju.
6. Attack lone destroyers, frigates, corvettes, etc. only when the conditions are absolutely favorable.
7. Concentrate on lone merchants. There are still a few of them out there.
8. Attack submerged, always. You probably won't have a deck gun anyway, but if you do, ignore it.
9. If you *MUST* attack a convoy, do it from long range. Fire the bow tubes, turn 180 degrees away from the convoy, fire the stern tubes, then either go very deep or stay at periscope depth, silent running at 2 knots or less.

These hints won't rack up a lot of tonnage, but they will keep you alive for as long as possible.
:up: That's a pretty good list, imo.
I'm currently sailing in Sept.'42 (Bergen, VIIC), and most of these tips are already showing their value. :cry:
But I'm still alive - on 3rd patrol (I do allot in realtime) - and '43 is getting near.:arrgh!:

[andy_311]

Irespective of what year your in be it 43,44,or 45 "Fog is a pain in the backside" I don't even attack convoys anymore in fog so much can go wrong if you mess up and with visability down to 350m it's not worth it.

[johan_d]

Sieg Heil to the fog! :arrgh!:

[Spudwiser]

I prefier the darknes over the fog. I find when it is dark it is MUCH eaiser to stay behind tge convoy and let their prop noise mask my approch.

[Tiny]

Darkness is better than fog, Medium fog is alright but most of all I preffer 0m/s wind speed and :sunny: ...thats just the way it is :roll:

[High Voltage]

Snorkels:
from "U-Boat War"

Now the boats that ran on Diesel oil were able to hide below the durface, while inhaling sufficient air for their engines through metal tubes. A second tube allowed the Diesel exhaust to escape upward. At the tip of the tube, a lid would come down and shut it off as soon as the upper end submerged.
(...) For the crew snorkeling was an agony; whenever a wave made the valve at the tip of the snorkel shut off the air supply to the diesels, the engines satisfied their considerable need for oxygen by draining the air directly from the boat's interior. At times the men were writhing on the floor in torment as their eardrums burst.

(...) At a level of some 150 feet under water - that is, in daytime - the external pressure was such that the sewage could not be pumped out of the boat. The drains were therefore emptied into a container that could be evacuated at a lesser depth, i.e., at nighttime when the snorkel was in use. A frightful stench soon pervaded the interior of the boat, because in addition there was no adequate system for removing the garbage. A number of different ways were tried: pushing it out through one of the torpedo tubes, or through tube six, the one intended for the "bolt", but which was not a feature of every boat, or else cramming it into empty containers - but no acceptable solution was found.

Good times.

[Puster Bill]

I started a career in 1943, at Bergen (I wanted a Type XXI when they become available). I made it all the way to December, 1944. Aircraft harass you day and night. You have to schnorkel most of the time, otherwise you will get killed.

Here are my tips for survival:

1. As soon as you can, get a schnorkel, and use it religiously.
2. Get every radar detector you can, as soon as it becomes available (Metox, Wanze, Naxos, etc.)
3. When you get an indication of radar signals, dive immediately, or lower your schnorkel if you are schnorkeling.
4. Do not, under any circumstances, transmit status reports or contact reports to BdU.
5. Avoid convoys. They are bad Ju-ju.
6. Attack lone destroyers, frigates, corvettes, etc. only when the conditions are absolutely favorable.
7. Concentrate on lone merchants. There are still a few of them out there.
8. Attack submerged, always. You probably won't have a deck gun anyway, but if you do, ignore it.
9. If you *MUST* attack a convoy, do it from long range. Fire the bow tubes, turn 180 degrees away from the convoy, fire the stern tubes, then either go very deep or stay at periscope depth, silent running at 2 knots or less.

These hints won't rack up a lot of tonnage, but they will keep you alive for as long as possible. :up: That's a pretty good list, imo.
I'm currently sailing in Sept.'42 (Bergen, VIIC), and most of these tips are already showing their value. :cry:
But I'm still alive - on 3rd patrol (I do allot in realtime) - and '43 is getting near.:arrgh!:

Thanks. Mostly it is just common sense: Don't let them see, hear, smell, or taste you. Stay away from things that can hurt you.

[Gezoes]

Fog is sexy :lol: fog is your friend:yep: i too love the fog

I haven't seen the sun in almost two weeks in my early 1940 career. One gets used to it. Besides, there's a convoy that's been wishing for some sun much more than me because I keep attacking them, no matter what the time is! :rotfl:

[Myxale]

Fog is sexy :lol:
:yep:

Sex also makes things Foggy! ;)

[IceGrog]

Fog is sexy :lol:
:yep:

Sex also makes things Foggy! ;)
yeah..........but you are not supposed to be doing that while you captain your boat.............................

[RawRecruit]

Yeah, it's Bernard that's supposed to screw you! :huh:

[Myxale]

My U-Boot isn't the only thing on my mind...i also have a car...:rotfl: