lynard
04-29-09, 09:43 PM
Long time player first time poster.
Been playing on and off now for a couple of years, mainly at 55%. Tried earlier with manual targeting but found it too difficult.
After reading the posts thought I would give it another go. Best move I made. Really adds something to the game, heart in mouth and hands shaking fun.
Find I miss the camera views so thinking of turning them back on.
Patrol 1 up near Hartford 20 days of fog and rain, not 1 fish fired, back home with tail between legs.
Patrol 2 again the east coast of England. Beautiful balmy weather and flat seas. 9 cargoes for just over 30,000 tons. Getting some funny looks from the crew, been a little bit chancy on this patrol. Popping up in daylight to lose some shells into some poor bugger. Could be a few awols when we get back. There's a destroyer out hunting us and he's not far away. Coming up on something now with one stern fish and a total of sixty shells left. This is going to have to be quick and dirty.
My manual target practice sessions could quite easily have ended up on funniest home videos. Torpedoes going in all directions but the way they were supposed too. Couple of times had the wrong aob set starboard instead of port, things like that. Getting the range with the periscope is the most difficult, ok with the uzo. I would have preferred the stadimeter controls reversed. Mouse for periscope, arrow keys for the stadimeter line.
With auto targeting the notepad reflects the changes in range and aob. This doesn't happen with manual. Is that correct?
Going to have to whip this crew into shape if I still have any left.
Example - lookouts "ship spotted"
Oh good, whereaway, port, starboard, pointy end, blunt end, bloody idiot. :damn:
Speaking of crew does anyone else have a lookout that gives them funny looks out of the corner of his eyes. This guy makes me bloody nervous. Secret Police I'm thinking.
Been playing on and off now for a couple of years, mainly at 55%. Tried earlier with manual targeting but found it too difficult.
After reading the posts thought I would give it another go. Best move I made. Really adds something to the game, heart in mouth and hands shaking fun.
Find I miss the camera views so thinking of turning them back on.
Patrol 1 up near Hartford 20 days of fog and rain, not 1 fish fired, back home with tail between legs.
Patrol 2 again the east coast of England. Beautiful balmy weather and flat seas. 9 cargoes for just over 30,000 tons. Getting some funny looks from the crew, been a little bit chancy on this patrol. Popping up in daylight to lose some shells into some poor bugger. Could be a few awols when we get back. There's a destroyer out hunting us and he's not far away. Coming up on something now with one stern fish and a total of sixty shells left. This is going to have to be quick and dirty.
My manual target practice sessions could quite easily have ended up on funniest home videos. Torpedoes going in all directions but the way they were supposed too. Couple of times had the wrong aob set starboard instead of port, things like that. Getting the range with the periscope is the most difficult, ok with the uzo. I would have preferred the stadimeter controls reversed. Mouse for periscope, arrow keys for the stadimeter line.
With auto targeting the notepad reflects the changes in range and aob. This doesn't happen with manual. Is that correct?
Going to have to whip this crew into shape if I still have any left.
Example - lookouts "ship spotted"
Oh good, whereaway, port, starboard, pointy end, blunt end, bloody idiot. :damn:
Speaking of crew does anyone else have a lookout that gives them funny looks out of the corner of his eyes. This guy makes me bloody nervous. Secret Police I'm thinking.