Real nasty weather.

[Packlife]

Was watching a documentary, an a U-boat veteran was saying how they had sailed in some impressive nasty storms, an that every so often they'd spot a lone ship. An instead of immediately attacking they would set a parallel course until conditions improved because nobody wanted to risk attacking in such bad weather. So my question is, do you attack in rough weather an how rough is too rough to where you say forget it. I also bring this up cuz currently I'm in that exact position I'm on the North Western Approaches mission in OHII. My current objective is to patrol between Feroe island an Iceland an attack an ships an task force I come across so our ships can break through, but right now I'm dealing with 1 of the nastiest storms I've dealt with so far 15mps winds which cause huge waves overcast skies heavy fog an medium rain. Since this storm started I ran into a small 2 ship convoy I spotted the outline of a cargo freighter in the fog the Lock thing didn't pop up but I fired any way I was in perfect attack position couldn't of been more than 600m away an yet torpedo completely missed my stop watch didn't even have the red line on it. Then I picked up 4 contacts total 2 groups of 2 war ships I tried to catch an intercept but the weather slowed me down too much. So I've decided to not try any more attacks until the weather conditions improve plus I'm down to 2 eel's in the fore tubes an 1 in the stern.

[vanjast]

From what I've read.. during nasty weather, the subs would submerge to 60 -100 feet (or to a calmer depth) and ride out the storm.

Attacking is also risky wrt the torps keeping depth, and could pre-detonate. Set them too deep and they'll miss anyway...

So essentially staying on the surface during rough weather is generally avoided in RL, even to shadow a ship.

:)

[Packlife]

Yea I do the same dive deep an wait it out, it's the only actual option any how I've wasted too many eel's due to too nasty of weather. I don't mind the rain or some bumpy sea's, it's the fog that kill's me. Even when I can make out the outline of the ship in the fog the game doesn't want to recognize that the ship is there. Like I said in my first post I was in a 90 degree AOB fired off a eel, an it never went off an it wasn't a dud because I didn't even get the red line on the stop watch.

[aschar]

I don't mind attacking in stormy conditions; it's just much trickier to do because high waves constantly block the periscope and they throw off the aim on the deck gun.

The biggest problem for me is heavy fog; medium fog is ok, welcoming perhaps, even in stormy conditions, but with heavy fog it's completely impossible to launch any attack because you can't see anything. You literally have to be sailing right next to a ship just to have something show up on the map.

[vanjast]

You could try hydrophone plotting/attack...

Worked for me in SH3... the best was a single torp fire/hit at around 2-3K metres in visibility of .. well, bad weather and rain squalls - maybe 500m.

I was so finely tuned to the hydrohone then, that I could approx the speed (and approach) just with 'them ears'.
:arrgh!: