Vladiator
04-21-08, 11:44 PM
Hi I asked the questions below at the ubi forum, but although quite a few people looked at it, no one responded (yet). So, I am trying my luck here...
Yesterday, I bought the U-Boat Missions Add-on. I am new to SH games in general (although I played a couple of missions on the American Campaign before that), and I have a few questions:
1) Normally I play with auto-aiming. When I started playing U-Boat, I accidently left "Manual targeting" turned on. So, I had to complete the mission with it being on. Although there are some explanations online of how to use TDC on American subs, I found that U-boats have a totally different sets up. I.e. on an American sub, all aiming entries about a target could be done at the periscope view. When I look through a periscope on U-boat, however, all I see is the torpedo launch panel, vessel recognition manual, and some little notebook at the top right coner which tells me the type of a vessel and has a line saying 3000m. I couldn't find any instruments that could help me to find the speed or AOB of the target. Could someone explain how it is done, please?
2) In that mission, I came accross a non-excorted convoy. It was night time, and I couldn't see much of any ships to be able to recognise them. Any tips about what to do at night (in this game, that is)?
I am sure I have more questions, but I can't remember them now.
BTW, somehow I still managed to sink a ship in that convoy with a torpedo. I just locked it in, chose some random tanker from the recognition manual (I knew it was a tanker because that little notebook in the top right coner said so), and released a few torpedos. Two of them hit the ship! They probably hit it only because it was only 600m away. I destroyed the remaining 4 merchant ships with the deck gun. 30,000 tons -- not bad for someone who didn't understand anything he was doing.
Yesterday, I bought the U-Boat Missions Add-on. I am new to SH games in general (although I played a couple of missions on the American Campaign before that), and I have a few questions:
1) Normally I play with auto-aiming. When I started playing U-Boat, I accidently left "Manual targeting" turned on. So, I had to complete the mission with it being on. Although there are some explanations online of how to use TDC on American subs, I found that U-boats have a totally different sets up. I.e. on an American sub, all aiming entries about a target could be done at the periscope view. When I look through a periscope on U-boat, however, all I see is the torpedo launch panel, vessel recognition manual, and some little notebook at the top right coner which tells me the type of a vessel and has a line saying 3000m. I couldn't find any instruments that could help me to find the speed or AOB of the target. Could someone explain how it is done, please?
2) In that mission, I came accross a non-excorted convoy. It was night time, and I couldn't see much of any ships to be able to recognise them. Any tips about what to do at night (in this game, that is)?
I am sure I have more questions, but I can't remember them now.
BTW, somehow I still managed to sink a ship in that convoy with a torpedo. I just locked it in, chose some random tanker from the recognition manual (I knew it was a tanker because that little notebook in the top right coner said so), and released a few torpedos. Two of them hit the ship! They probably hit it only because it was only 600m away. I destroyed the remaining 4 merchant ships with the deck gun. 30,000 tons -- not bad for someone who didn't understand anything he was doing.