just completed second patrol

[midnightrider1818]

just completed my second patrol. got one ore carrier, a freighter and troop ship. went through the English channel on the way out and on the way in but I think I am gonna start going around England. getting to dangerous to go through there. I started my career in aug of 39 and I think it is about oct of 39. How do you sailers usually get to the atlantic. do you go through the English channel or around. I also got one torpedo boat in the English channel. he came up on me fast and did some minor damage but nothing I couldn't repair. I also noticed that after the ships went down I seen no bodies floating. I thought with the grey wolves 3.0 mod it showed bodies. I haven't ran into no convoys yet and no merchants have shot back at me. I sure would love to run into a task force and get some nice tonnage. :arrgh!: I was also wondering when will I be able to get get my butt to lorient and get a type ix and do all ships sail under blackout conditions once the war starts

[RConch]

To get to France you have to wait till late summer 1940 at least.

[midnightrider1818]

Does anybody have a tutorial on how to use the charts in sh3. I mean if a ship is traveling at medium speed that is around 10 knots. so in sh3 I need to convert that to meters. Is that correct.

[U-15]

Hello Midnight Rider,

Are we talking about the two pull-down charts in top left corner.

If we are, then chart 1 tells you the distance in kilometres against knots for periods in hours ranging from 1 hour to 10 hours.
e.g. 9 knots at 4 hours = 66.67 kilometres travelled

Chart 2 tells you the distance in metres against knots for periods in minutes ranging from 1 minute to 45 minutes
e.g. 9 knots at 15 minutes = 4.167 metres multiplied by 1,000 as indicated at the top of the time bars = 4,167 metres.
On chart 2 the quick workround is to read the figure in metres as km, so 4,167 metres becomes 4.167 km

[WilhelmSchulz.]

Well congrats! And you certentaly have more balls than I do. The Channel is normally a death trap. Lots of mines and DD`s. Normally (and historically) boats go around the top of the Orknary`s (Scapa Flow). And Merchants don't get deck guns until late 1940. :up:

[Zosimus]

That's a big ditto for me. I never take the Channel route. First of all, there are usually a lot of solo ships north of England that you can shoot at. Second, the Channel is too shallow and dangerous for me.

I don't convert knots to meters. I use the method at http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=88961&highlight=tutorial to intercept and sink ships.

There's a four-bearing method floating around too, but I only use that in bad weather by hydrophone.

[UKönig]

Does anybody have a tutorial on how to use the charts in sh3. I mean if a ship is traveling at medium speed that is around 10 knots. so in sh3 I need to convert that to meters. Is that correct.

Multiply your speed in knots by 1.4 to get Kilometers per hour.
8 knots = 11.2 km/h or about the speed of a cyclist. I've ridden golf carts that go faster than a submerged u-boat...