Confirm I crossed a few on my way in and out to Bristol harbour in my present patrol Sept. 39.

AM52 and AM53 are excellent for the first two years. A Convoy going through there every 72 hours, easy to get to, at the absolute fringe of aircover.

Once the Amerikaners join, you have to head out further west. AL-38 is a good one. No air cover, away from where the task forces patrol (no CAP), deep water, sometimes every convoy goes through there and sometimes it's every other one.

wow, thank you guys, i didnt even expect so many replies! i will try all the locations near great britain you mentioned.

subwolf: off course, there are tankers outside convoys. they are rare in comparison with the c2/3, though. maybe you just had not enough luck...

Try near the Port of Spain if in the Caribbean
Couple of good harbours there with tankers

There is a T2 I think in Hartlepool harbour and quite an easy raid I thought (Nov '39).

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I have found lone tanker in the Caribbean, every time I go there I spot atleast one T3 sailing alone...but they do sail quite fast so prepare your attacks well.

Cheers

I'm also in May of '40 and also have found AM53 to be the most lucrative hunting ground at this time. Constant convoys, my last one had a T2, 2 T3's, and assorted others (C2, Coastal, Small).

The one previous had C2's, C3's, 2 Troop Transports, and 1 Passenger Liner. Sadly I onl had 3 fish when I ran into that one!! Got a C2 and the Passenger Liner, had to watch the rest sail safely away.

If you really rally really can't be bothered to go looking for them then just download the spy sat mod from UBRS :nope: :D

There is indeed a T2 in Hartlepool. I've seen one every time I raid it, which has been 3-5 times late '39 - March '40. However, I have had difficulty sinking tankers in port in my IID with minimal numbers of eels. Following a shot to the engine room with impact pistol which creates the secondary explosion you described, the stern hits bottom preventing sinking. After much experimentation, I have had the best luck as follows. Firing one eel at 10 m (1/2 m below keel) under the aft edge of the forward superstructure (forward of midships) breaks the back 30% of the time. The 1/2 m is important b/c with 1 m below keel depth, the back doesn't break as often (I didn't finish the calculation once I saw the probability was less than 30%:know:). If the back doesn't break, a second eel set to impact hitting the engine room increases the probability of sinking by 30% (60% probability with 2 fish).

I was hoping a single eel on impact to the engine room would be sufficient in deeper water, and I am in the middle of attacking a convoy just departing Southend. Even in deep water , one eel to the engine room with impact pistol complete with secondary explosions still didn't sink a T2. It was dead in the water and I finished it with a second fish (no deck gun on my IID) at 10 m and magnetic pistol under the forward half of the forward superstructure.

There are many posts reporting 90% sink probabilities for T2s with one fish, but I can't duplicate those results. I don't know how much GWX, convoy mods, or ship model mods may be affecting the results. I'm using 1.4b patched vanilla right now before switching to GWX so I can appreciate the difference.

Anyone else perfected the one-eel technique for tankers? Please include torp depth, location of detonation (as accurately as possible, but tough to see when evading escorts), and mods.

I only found a medium merchant there

Most Tankers can be found in the US East Coast. After 1942-43 when convoys in the Atlantic become bigger and bigger you can find them almost everywhere.

for me, going to the south-western corner of bf17 and sailing slowly towards the north-eastern corner of bf15, mostly underwater and when on the surface at night, I usually get overtaken by 1 or 2 small convoys consisting of tankers in all sorts of shapes and sizes, from small tankers to whaling factories to T3s, it pays to lurk there, except for the planes, but in 39-40 it's fairly safe

Last patrol I was bored so I went to Canada. (Mid 1940 - IXB out of Wilhelmshaven)

I had a feeling I'd find some tankers there and I was right!


In between Sydney and Argentia, grids BB59 or BB55. First day there I sank 3 tankers. (GWX1.03 - not sure what you'd find with stock)

Then a convoy came by and after I attacked them I had to get home because of fuel. (I ended up with only 500km left when I got back)


I'm out of France now and intend to make another trip to Tanker Alley before things get too hot over there.

What's happened to the Pyro ships? In GWX 1.1 there were plenty but I have yet to see one in 1.03.

Likewise, I've not seen any Pyros recently. I seem to see lots of whale factory ships which in reality were in use as tankers. However, they're always in convoys.

Got some nice big single large mechants recently heading towards Gibraltar, but that was late 1940 so not sure about later on.