... And now i get it...

[Garrincha]

Blowing up escorts with the 88mm is much easier than fighting them submerged... Has anyone tried to do this. A lovely convoy, with 5 torps left, 2 of them being the new T Ves acoustic torp, and a lot of cannon rounds...

pretty interesting: Flower corvettes blow up after 4/5 shots, and a Black swan isn't that much harder.

I play at 54%, should it be this easy?

Vanilla + 1.4b patch + Grey Wolves + GW 1.1 update

Cheers all,
Garrincha

0831BE 62Ship sunk! S.S. Bolivar (Medium Cargo), 5799 tons0904BE 62Ship sunk! S.S. African Rainbow (Large Cargo), 5980 tons0939BE 62Ship sunk! HMS Southdown (Hunt I Destroyer), 1000 tons1023BE 62Ship sunk! HMS Clematis (Flower Corvette), 950 tons1043BE 62Ship sunk! HMCS Oakville (Flower Corvette), 950 tons1121BE 62Ship sunk! HMS Nereide (Black Swan Frigate), 1250 tons1127BE 62Ship sunk! S.S. Moor's Fields (Medium Cargo), 5803 tons1156BE 62Ship sunk! HMS Cyclamen (Flower Corvette), 950 tons

[Rose]

Thats an absolute ****load of ships sunk :p.

[Garrincha]

hehe, 8 ships with 5 torps is pretty decent i reckon... :D

[Sailor Steve]

should it be this easy?
No, it shouldn't. In real life one hit from a corvette's deck gun renders a u-boat no longer a u-boat. No one would ever have tried to do that.

[zpn09]

Yeah this bugs me too, a u-boat dueling destroyers with it's deck gun... I don't think so

[Der Eisen-Wal]

Yeah this bugs me too, a u-boat dueling destroyers with it's deck gun... I don't think so

well he did say corvette and blackswan that's not really destroyer quality. still it is pretty audicious.

[andy_311]

I'd take on a corvette with a deck gun but that's about it,as for a black swan no way i really hate them guys.sooner use a fish on them lot.

[NEON DEON]

Surface attack a Flower Corvette.

Tactics?

I am curiuous as to how you go about that without taking a lot of damage in return.

[Akula_971]

Ali Cremer in U333 had a surface fight with a corvette and survived, but his boat became known as Ali's wreck.

In the game they are terrible shots at long ranges, so if you have a good gunner, or gun yourself, you can inflict serious damage before they get close

[andy_311]

I man the deck gun myself, hit flank and fire away Iv'e never seen a Flower corvette do more than 15knts on surfacea u-boat can do about 19 so if there's some distance between you and him you can inflict some damage, I'd wouldn't let my deck gun crew take on a corvette because there hit rate is something like 1in3 and use those crummy AP shells which i consider totally useless.

[Sacs]

I've occasionally gunned at a corvette/destroyer to get their attention (when they hadn't seen me). Then once they start charging in I'd dive and give em a torp in the face.

Dicey tactic once they start maneuvering on the way in! Have to wait til they're < 600m so they dont have time to dodge, which is a little too close if you miss....

Easy for the dumb ones that bore straight in tho...

[Engel der Vernichtung]

I've occasionally gunned at a corvette/destroyer to get their attention (when they hadn't seen me). Then once they start charging in I'd dive and give em a torp in the face.

Dicey tactic once they start maneuvering on the way in! Have to wait til they're < 600m so they dont have time to dodge, which is a little too close if you miss....

Easy for the dumb ones that bore straight in tho...

They call this "playing chicken".

[Deep Six]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sacs
I've occasionally gunned at a corvette/destroyer to get their attention (when they hadn't seen me). Then once they start charging in I'd dive and give em a torp in the face.

Dicey tactic once they start maneuvering on the way in! Have to wait til they're < 600m so they dont have time to dodge, which is a little too close if you miss....

Easy for the dumb ones that bore straight in tho...

Dicey tactic but one that worked well for me playing silent Hunter ! and before that Silent Service.......Plus if you watched the film with the jap destroyer called "Bungo Pete" (My memory is crap) isn't this the tactic that the American captain used to finish of Ole' Bungo ???? True story as well I believe......:arrgh!:


Deep Six

[NEON DEON]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sacs
I've occasionally gunned at a corvette/destroyer to get their attention (when they hadn't seen me). Then once they start charging in I'd dive and give em a torp in the face.

Dicey tactic once they start maneuvering on the way in! Have to wait til they're < 600m so they dont have time to dodge, which is a little too close if you miss....

Easy for the dumb ones that bore straight in tho...

Dicey tactic but one that worked well for me playing silent Hunter ! and before that Silent Service.......Plus if you watched the film with the jap destroyer called "Bungo Pete" (My memory is crap) isn't this the tactic that the American captain used to finish of Ole' Bungo ???? True story as well I believe......:arrgh!:


Deep Six


"Run Silent Run Deep" (1958)? Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052151/


I cannot remember if that is the film or not. I loved watching that movie when I was a kid.

[tbarak]

Why even bother with the escorts? Their tonnage blows and they're lightweight on renown. Your ordnance should go to tankers Kaleun. Unless of course there's only say one or two guarding a convoy. But that's rare. This is a happy time for you, enjoy the wind and smoke, you will know in time. :cry:

[Der Eisen-Wal]

Why even bother with the escorts? Their tonnage blows and they're lightweight on renown. Your ordnance should go to tankers Kaleun. Unless of course there's only say one or two guarding a convoy. But that's rare. This is a happy time for you, enjoy the wind and smoke, you will know in time. :cry:

very true. if you must, hit them from range by yourself, but really unless it is a huge convoy you want to just annihalate on your own time, it's not really worth taking out escorts, especially by midwar there are at least 3 or 4 and deck gunning wouldn't be feasible. heck i wouldn't waste a fish on anything smaller than a T3 or C3 nowadays... it's not worth the fish really.

[Sailor Steve]

I'd take on a corvette with a deck gun but that's about it,as for a black swan no way i really hate them guys.sooner use a fish on them lot.
If it was real life, I doubt it. You could put quite a few rounds into a corvette before it sinks. One hit, and your u-boat is now a surface ship, with a hole in it.