Best strategy??

[bigJ47]

Ahoy Captains,

im in my 1st campain, 4th mission,,

and not having much luck finding merchants,
3 sank in 3missions ttl.

when u-guys go on patrol,,
do you;
1.patrol in the middle of the ocean?
2.patrol near the enemys coast?
3.do a seek for shipping lanes?

Im getting bored out here, with this ocean all to myself :zzz:

BigJ47.
"no, youguys cant go bird-hunting,, we'll find an enemy soon"

[kenijaru]

search for hotspots, like near portugal, west of the UK, near gibraltar, far off the coast of france (to the west, south of the UK)

[AO1_AW_SW_USN]

Here's some of my "Honey Holes" (Note: I use the IUB 1.03 mod):

AM13, AM17, AM19 = Great convoy lanes NW of Ireland.

BF13, BF15, BF17, BF16, BF19 = Lots of single merchant shipping and the occasional convoy, but has shallow waters and lots of aircraft and single patrolling DDs.

CG94 = My personal favorite until mid-1943 (aircraft attacks gets nasty after mid-1943). I usually run out of torpedoes and deck gun ammunition after 5 days on station. You can sometimes get the occasional Task Force that comes out of the Scappa Flow area on their way to Alexandria.. and they have to get past you first! I normally rack up 55,000-125,000 tons per patrol in CG94.

ED98= From December 1941 until mid-1943. Tanker alley! Lots of single T3 or T2 tankers. Some unescorted tanker convoys comes in and out of the Port of Spain area.

[THE_MASK]

Sometimes i turn that round thing while under water beginning with a H .

[VonHelsching]

Which mods do you use? Some of the mods reduce mechant traffic.

[jasondef]

Most people do their 24 hours in their assigned patrol zones for the renown that'll give you, then go to one of the "hunting grounds" detailed in the wiki:

http://www.communitymanuals.com/shiii/index.php?title=Hunting_Grounds

[bigJ47]

THNX AO1, and to all who replied,
Im using IUB 1.03

Im thinking of adding a mod I just got got
called 'Improved convoys 2006'
and hope it doesnt interfere with IUB.

Ive got to do something,, Imtired of chasing
my own "dot" accross the map :zzz:

BigJ47.
"iM afraid to send my crew to bed, I keep
getting reports that they are so-bored, they
wack-off 10-times a night to girly-books,, Im
giving my whole crew a "section8" when we get to port!. :arrgh!:

[jasondef]

Query: What does "wack-off" mean? Please explain.

[STEED]

Query: What does "wack-off" mean? Please explain.

It's a slang word and I am not posting what it stands for :nope:

[Mil_tera]

me neither...but what rimes on Wack-off? :stare:

[Spike]

What got to be my favorite spot was south of Ireland never went any where else,there are patrols but nothing to bad,North Atlantic the weather was bad,but south of Ireland the weather was much better and lots of tanker traffic and also found a Liner that I sunk w/my last torp(lucky Shot).I would patrol just off the deep water line back and forth.

[DeepSix]

Query: What does "wack-off" mean? Please explain.

It's slang for growing hair on the palms of your hands. :-j

[Edit: Um, oh, yes, I like hunting near convoy approaches - any place the waters narrow to feed a port or a strait.]

[Straydog]

Loreena Bobbitt knows what "whack-off" means. ;)

[VonHelsching]

THNX AO1, and to all who replied,
Im using IUB 1.03

Im thinking of adding a mod I just got got
called 'Improved convoys 2006'
and hope it doesnt interfere with IUB.

Ive got to do something,, Imtired of chasing
my own "dot" accross the map :zzz:

BigJ47.
"iM afraid to send my crew to bed, I keep
getting reports that they are so-bored, they
wack-off 10-times a night to girly-books,, Im
giving my whole crew a "section8" when we get to port!. :arrgh!:


Bear in mind that although Improved Convoys indeed improves the convoys, it is reducing single merchant traffic significantly (as it was in real life, I may add).

[bigJ47]

Thnx to all,

thnx Von-helsching,,
then I will leave it as-is, I do get some
juicy Loner-merchants ever-so-often,
and they are FUN :up:

ran into a Large convoy last-night,
but when I got too-close, the Destroyers
were all-over me :doh:

went-down to 80meters and ran :up:

BigJ47.
"stop-that sailor, yull go Blind!!"

[SubSerpent]

The best strategy...



Don't leave port and end the war with 500 renown and in a Type II. You will live longer and see the end of the war! Game might be boring though. :doh:

[mapuc]

Can you please make the texture a little bigger, I have trouble reading all you postings
:D :D

Markus

[Sgian Dubh]

me neither...but what rimes on Wack-off? :stare:

I just can't resist resonding to this one. If your, *ahem*, appendage has rime on it I feel very sorry for you indeed!

:-j

[Rosencrantz]

Best strategy? Shoot 'em all!

:-j

[Dantenoc]

You have to learn to take advantage of "radio contact reports". The realy lousy thing about the game is that these reports don't realy come in through the radio operator (as they should), hence he won't report anything to you... rather, you have to keep your eyes glued to the nav-map at all times and whenever an enemy ship misteriously pops up way even though it is well beyond visual range (and this will happen even with the map auto update turned off), then that means that you just got a "hot tip" on an enemy ship through the radio.

That's where most of my tonnage comes from :yep:

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http://subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=47980