Foghladh_mhara
04-02-07, 06:34 AM
Does anybody categorically know if you have to be within visual range to receive credit for a sinking? I'm playing GWX.
Patrolling my grid in BE31 when a convoy contact appeared on the map about 10 nm from my position travelling at 9 knots. No sooner had I ordered right full rudder to get perpindicular to the reported course when the lookouts spotted the lead escort coming straight at me. He wasn't after me I just happened to be right in the path of the herd. I went to 30m and lay stopped until he passed and then popped up to periscope depth to find myself right in the line of the 2nd column and I had to go to full astern to avoid getting run over by a small merchant. I picked out a large merchant and medium cargo in the third column and fired two spread salvoes. I got one hit on the merchant and a double on the cargo, all magnetic pistols. I dived to 100m but the hunters (sounded like three of them) were frankly crap, this being Sep 1939 and the DC attack was so far away my hydrophone bloke didn't even report them. 30 mins later I went back to periscope depth to find the large merch dead in the water and on fire and the convoy zigzagging away to england including my cargo with two big holes in it.
My dilemma is this. The large merchant will sink I'm sure of it, its only a question of when and what I'd like to do is follow the convoy in case it changes course and I lose my prey. Of course if I hare off after the convoy dont find it and dont witness the sinking of the first ship I'll have expended four eels for nothing:cry: Also the tailend escort is still in periscope sight so if I fire another torp to put it down he's gonna come back and occupy me for another hour. What to do:hmm:
Patrolling my grid in BE31 when a convoy contact appeared on the map about 10 nm from my position travelling at 9 knots. No sooner had I ordered right full rudder to get perpindicular to the reported course when the lookouts spotted the lead escort coming straight at me. He wasn't after me I just happened to be right in the path of the herd. I went to 30m and lay stopped until he passed and then popped up to periscope depth to find myself right in the line of the 2nd column and I had to go to full astern to avoid getting run over by a small merchant. I picked out a large merchant and medium cargo in the third column and fired two spread salvoes. I got one hit on the merchant and a double on the cargo, all magnetic pistols. I dived to 100m but the hunters (sounded like three of them) were frankly crap, this being Sep 1939 and the DC attack was so far away my hydrophone bloke didn't even report them. 30 mins later I went back to periscope depth to find the large merch dead in the water and on fire and the convoy zigzagging away to england including my cargo with two big holes in it.
My dilemma is this. The large merchant will sink I'm sure of it, its only a question of when and what I'd like to do is follow the convoy in case it changes course and I lose my prey. Of course if I hare off after the convoy dont find it and dont witness the sinking of the first ship I'll have expended four eels for nothing:cry: Also the tailend escort is still in periscope sight so if I fire another torp to put it down he's gonna come back and occupy me for another hour. What to do:hmm: