What would YOU do...

[svenks]

...if you were in my sailor boots (apart from wrinkle your nose:o)?
Situation: 52nm off east coast of England, near Hartlepool. I'm near the edge of the minefield (at least, I HOPE it's the edge:huh:), as I know from a minor encounter with one of the mines - luckily I was too deep for it to do any serious damage. There is a large convoy on it's way, been tracking it since it came out of the Channel. It will be at my position in around 4 hours if everything goes right. The water is pretty deep here, but the weather is just too good - and daylight has just broken (jun 17th, 1940).
That means I will have to attack submerged - but how to avoid the #### mines??? Or should I withdraw and try to time a night surface attack?
Or give up this convoy, and go find some action N of Ireland?


What would you do?
BRGDS
Sven

[NipplesTheCat]

Its heading out to sea? Why cant you just track it for another day or two untill it is clear of the minefield?

[Morts]

try to follow it on the surface untill its out of the minefield
but stay out of the DD's views
stay as far away as you can and still keep a visual

[Brag]

If water is deep there won't be mines there (I hope) :roll:

[The Munster]

If you have a Monkey onboard, ask it if their are any minefields in the area :rotfl:

[Paajtor]

In daylight, you can use your obs.scope to scan for mines in front of your submerged sub....just raise it a little, enough to pop the head up.
Downside is, that you'll have to travel extremely slow, to have some time to react.
But I've travelled straight through a minefield this way...and will never do it again, lol.
After a having passed a few mines, I started feeling pretty stupid, but I had to continue, as I didn't dare to turn and withdraw.
Well, we made it, but picked a different way out after our job was done.

[Letum]

If you are using GWX then there are dolphins in the mod.
Dolphins have been trained by the USA for anti-mine operations.

See where I'm going?

1) Find a Dolphin
2) train it
3) profit.

[Foghladh_mhara]

Head for the north channel between scotland and ireland. Any convoy I ever met on the east coast of england consisted of tramp steamers and small merchies. Not worth the hassle of being hunted in shallow water for 2000 tons:nope:

[svenks]

If water is deep there won't be mines there (I hope)
Unfortunately, that is not the case. In SH3/GWX, mines are not restricted to shallow waters - guess they would be in real life.

Thanks to all for input - and I AM using the obs scope to check for mines. Unfortunately, that means TC=1...

OK, my plan is as follows: At 60m, enter a slow 360 degr circle at my present position. If I spot no mines here, I'll keep that up until I get a fix on the convoy. Then I'll surface and position myself, hoping to avoid airplanes. Then dive to 20 m and wait for the convoy, keeping an eye out for mines.
As for the getaway - I hope to be able to avoid both mines and DD's by going deep.

Wish me luck!
BRGDS
Sven

[Morts]

If water is deep there won't be mines there (I hope)
Unfortunately, that is not the case. In SH3/GWX, mines are not restricted to shallow waters - guess they would be in real life.

Thanks to all for input - and I AM using the obs scope to check for mines. Unfortunately, that means TC=1...

OK, my plan is as follows: At 60m, enter a slow 360 degr circle at my present position. If I spot no mines here, I'll keep that up until I get a fix on the convoy. Then I'll surface and position myself, hoping to avoid airplanes. Then dive to 20 m and wait for the convoy, keeping an eye out for mines.
As for the getaway - I hope to be able to avoid both mines and DD's by going deep.

Wish me luck!
BRGDS
Sven
held og lykke:up:

[Jimbuna]

Luck and happiness :hmm: :arrgh!:

[Morts]

Luck and happiness :hmm: :arrgh!:
how did you guess:hmm:

[Jimbuna]

I speak in many tongues...the most common one being 'forked' :D :arrgh!:

[Morts]

I speak in many tongues...the most common one being 'forked' :D :arrgh!:

riiight...:doh:

[mookiemookie]

I'd let it go as you don't know exactly where the mines are. But I'm a very conservative Kaleun. :cool:

[Jimbuna]

Deep water (70+metres)= no mines....GO FOR IT!! :yep: BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! :arrgh!:

[Jimbuna]

Deep water (70+metres)= no mines....GO FOR IT!! :yep: BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! :arrgh!:

EDit: Oops!!...butter fingers :lol:

[svenks]

you don't know exactly where the mines are

Oh, yes I do... Unfortunately, the way to find them is a bit... let's say "risky"...:o

And, jim: I had more than 100m under the keel, when I 'found'(!) the first one...

BRGDS
Sven

[svenks]

But in the end, it all came to - nothing!
The convoy never showed up (at least not within my hearing range), so I can only assume they went to Hartlepool:damn:

- What a waste of time -

So now I'm on my way to the fat hunting grounds... Oh, and I came across a large tanker on my way there - it helps a bit!

BRGDS
Sven

[Jimbuna]

Pleased to hear it matey :up: :arrgh!: