n0mjaS
04-25-20, 02:31 PM
Ok so the story goes like this (TWoS mod btw):
I was ordered to patrol area north west from Ireland, but on the way there i received contact report of a Large Convoy heading exactly my way and obviously i couldnt pass on it. I launched two attacks and sinked 4 ships for a total of 27k tons. After 1st attack i managed to escape pretty easily, but escape after the 2nd one took me full 3 hours (on TC1 ...) before i could finally surface the boat (4 destroyers were on me at some point). Damage isnt huge, but i lost bow dive planes (stern ones at 53%), so i have problems with keeping depth (btw god bless whoever made controlling diveplanes manually possible)
So im left with 3 torpedoes, i can barely submerge and surface, so i sent my status report to BDU in hopes they will mercifully let me abort patrol and go back to port for repairs.
But you can already guess what message i received instead: "Be more agressive!" :yeah:
My question is, what you guys do in situations like this? Should i go back to port and finish my patrol? I guess ill get some punishment to rating(?), but its more realistic than to go all the way to patrol zone now (im in AN27, between Dundee and Bergen) without any torpedoes left and just sit there for few days while avoiding any contact.
The second question is about using TC and saving game during escapes. Like i said before, last one took me 3 hours to do on TC1. Can you speed game up briefly in certain moments without risking to break AI behaviour in some way? Im risking missing pings/divebombs obviously, but thats on me.
Also can i save the game during the escape and reload it later, without risking the same thing?
Because if i have to make escapes like this one after every convoy attack, ill burn out of the game pretty quickly i think. :hmmm:
I was ordered to patrol area north west from Ireland, but on the way there i received contact report of a Large Convoy heading exactly my way and obviously i couldnt pass on it. I launched two attacks and sinked 4 ships for a total of 27k tons. After 1st attack i managed to escape pretty easily, but escape after the 2nd one took me full 3 hours (on TC1 ...) before i could finally surface the boat (4 destroyers were on me at some point). Damage isnt huge, but i lost bow dive planes (stern ones at 53%), so i have problems with keeping depth (btw god bless whoever made controlling diveplanes manually possible)
So im left with 3 torpedoes, i can barely submerge and surface, so i sent my status report to BDU in hopes they will mercifully let me abort patrol and go back to port for repairs.
But you can already guess what message i received instead: "Be more agressive!" :yeah:
My question is, what you guys do in situations like this? Should i go back to port and finish my patrol? I guess ill get some punishment to rating(?), but its more realistic than to go all the way to patrol zone now (im in AN27, between Dundee and Bergen) without any torpedoes left and just sit there for few days while avoiding any contact.
The second question is about using TC and saving game during escapes. Like i said before, last one took me 3 hours to do on TC1. Can you speed game up briefly in certain moments without risking to break AI behaviour in some way? Im risking missing pings/divebombs obviously, but thats on me.
Also can i save the game during the escape and reload it later, without risking the same thing?
Because if i have to make escapes like this one after every convoy attack, ill burn out of the game pretty quickly i think. :hmmm: