good sectors for patrolling

[kholdstayr]

I have had this game for awhile but I never played it much when I first got it. I have recently began to play it again. Anyway, I am wondering where some good patrol areas are, specifically around 1940/1941. I have tried patrolling a few different areas, using the included map to try to find convoys. I usually ignore single ship contacts during a patrol. Anyway, the only area I have found any convoys so far is in AM-53 above northern Ireland. In the last three patrols there has always been convoys there. I have tried looking for convoys off of the southern coast of Ireland, which the map shows as OA and OB shipping routes. I have also looked around the east and west sides of the English channel and haven't found any convoys there.

So besides the AM grids above Ireland is there any major hotspot?

[tycho102]

Just east of center, AM-38. Convoys spaced about 1000km apart, normal/light escorts, no air cover, all the way up 'till mid-1943. After that, there's still convoys but they are tougher and you'll get some CAP flights from time to time.

[TreverSlyFox]

Try around AM17, AM18 there is a shallow patch of water there, shows up as a white patch. I've caught more than a few convoys comming through there as they head to the North approch to the channel. Another is the BE 30's for the South approch to the channel. Another convoy route is through DT 20's, 50's and 80's, the Freetown/Liverpool and Freetown/Gibralter route.

If you have a Type IX hang around BB 70's and 80's quad South of Halifax, good convoys there but watch for the air cover, or the Upper CB 10's, 20's and 30's. There is also 2 Passenger liner routes about 35Klm apart that run through the upper CB's comming out of New York. I've caught one liner on the South track and an hour later caught one on the North track.

Good Hunting! :up:

[andy_311]

CF grid head South you can't miss them.