Battleship

[best fish]

why there are not many battleships(carriers...)in sh3?Is it important the year of playing?
And which mod do you use to combat with those battleships?

[Letum]

no many where made
there is not such mod

[Nedlam]

IF you stumble upon a carrier or Battleship alone, at night, in fog and IF you are in a perfect attack position with little or no maneuvering THEN and ONLY THEN do you attack said vessels.

Otherwise do what all the other good U-Boat comanders did: Pray they don't spot you. Then find a nice fat, juicy undefended and helpless cargo vessel and blow it all to hell!

I have yet to come across one yet. I did however go looking for trouble around Scarpa Flow(sp?) one day and found it. Saw a lone destroyer (forgot exactly what type) THOUGHT I had a good shot at getting him. Just as I launched my torpedos I hear the pinging...

Well, SIX destroyers later and several near misses and I managed to sneak out of there with minimal damage. I, ummmm, nudge the sea floor a little when I dove too deep.

And no I don't consider myself a wimp. A bully, not a wimp. :)

I pretty much have the same opinion of aircraft... attacking aircraft in a U-Boat makes for a good movie but in R/L (and this sim) just run and hide.

[oRGy]

Real U-Boat commanders attacked task forces a lot, especially during the Norwegian campaign. However, their torpedoes failed them.

Later on, they were too focused on convoys, and task forces were too fast to be attacked successfully.

[best fish]

I yust wanted to ask why when i went to scapa flow and loch ewe there was nothing (no carriers,no battleships) only Fiji.....i have 1.4 pathc,harbor traffic 1.46,RUB44 and improved convoy.... :roll:

[Pablo]

I yust wanted to ask why when i went to scapa flow and loch ewe there was nothing (no carriers,no battleships) only Fiji.....i have 1.4 pathc,harbor traffic 1.46,RUB44 and improved convoy.... :roll:
Hi!

Fixed capital ship deployments are set up in the CAMPAIGN.SCR file. For example, in the stock game, you can search CAMPAIGN.SCR for "Revenge" to find all the fixed task forces that contain a Revenge-class battleship, and eventually find the Royal Oak and the dates upon which you can try to duplicate Gunther Prien's feat and sink her in Scapa Flow.

Someone made a posting somewhere (I think it was on the Subsim "Silent Hunter III" board) listing all the deployments of major fleet units in Scapa Flow and Loch Ewe for the stock game; however, I don't know if the mods you mentioned (e.g., RUb, Harbor Traffic) changed any of these deployments.

Pablo

[Nedlam]

[quote="oRGy"]Real U-Boat commanders attacked task forces a lot, especially during the Norwegian campaign. However, their torpedoes failed them.[quote]

I stand corrected. Okay, I am a wimp. :)

BTW it happened again last night. I came upon yet another destroyer and was already in the perfect position to attack. Hell, I was less than 400m from him when I fired. My torpedoes either did not arm themselves in time or failed or flat out missed.

Got out of that one unscathed too.