benitorios
03-19-12, 12:38 AM
Date is December 30, 1940.
My IXB is on its homebound journey after a rather successful patrol - 3 ships sunk from 2 separate convoy attacks (actually 3 attacks, but the first one was quickly aborted due to being detected), 3 lone merchants sunk by torpedoes and another 3 loners by deck gun - total 26,000 tons or so. I have no bow torpedoes left, only 3 stern torpedoes (2 in the tubes, 1 in reserve).
That's when i get not one, but two contact reports of convoys - one just "convoy", one large convoy - each of them within 200km of my current position. That's when I had to make a call: go for one of the convoys, knowing I can fire at most 2 eels (I don't reload during or right after an attack), quite possibly hit nothing and risk being caught in the process, or go home.
I'm quite ashamed to say I chose the latter, thinking I had had enough on this patrol, that greed kills, that I had been lucky to escape a couple of times already, etc. all the good excuses :O: I'm quick to add that I'm still far from mastering convoy attacks. I play with full realism except stabilized view and I tend to freak out a bit when so many things happen at the same time and mess up my targeting as a consequence. So that weighed a lot in my decision to call it a day.
Did I make the right call?
My IXB is on its homebound journey after a rather successful patrol - 3 ships sunk from 2 separate convoy attacks (actually 3 attacks, but the first one was quickly aborted due to being detected), 3 lone merchants sunk by torpedoes and another 3 loners by deck gun - total 26,000 tons or so. I have no bow torpedoes left, only 3 stern torpedoes (2 in the tubes, 1 in reserve).
That's when i get not one, but two contact reports of convoys - one just "convoy", one large convoy - each of them within 200km of my current position. That's when I had to make a call: go for one of the convoys, knowing I can fire at most 2 eels (I don't reload during or right after an attack), quite possibly hit nothing and risk being caught in the process, or go home.
I'm quite ashamed to say I chose the latter, thinking I had had enough on this patrol, that greed kills, that I had been lucky to escape a couple of times already, etc. all the good excuses :O: I'm quick to add that I'm still far from mastering convoy attacks. I play with full realism except stabilized view and I tend to freak out a bit when so many things happen at the same time and mess up my targeting as a consequence. So that weighed a lot in my decision to call it a day.
Did I make the right call?