Just wait till the start pounding your home port in 44-45 its not like you can do a "crash dive in port" stay on top and prepare for a shoot out.:lol:

Now this is getting ridiculous :down:

GWX 1.2, in 1940, I'm shooting a merchant to bits with my deckgun in AM52. Weather is nice but overcast. Suddenly I can hear a fighter plane in the distance. AA gun crew are ready and have been ordered to "fire at will". The sound gets closer, there's the plane!... the AA gun crews: do nothing. The plane circles around us but apparently doesn't attack... maybe it's not a hostile plane? I goes of into the distance and shortly comes back, making another run. He flys over us and passes by as some machine gun bullets straff the sea, but, on our part, nothing has happened, nobody has fired the AA gun. Then suddenly, as the plane is going off into the distance for the second time, the crew shouts, "plane spotted!" and they start shooting at it :shifty: give me a brake :down:

All of this happened at 1xTC, but now I understand why I always get some damage before TC drops down every time I spot a plane in GWX... and it's still 1940!!! :dead:

My current campaign is Jun 1943. I cant stay on the surface anywhere near France/England longer than 30 min without having aircraft appear. They seem to be programed to show up every 30 min.

Luckly, I have detected them first and I am able to dive to avoid them, so far. i have yet to be surprised.

I was lining up to attack a liner today and a few minutes before i could take the shot i got the "radar signals detected", I did a quick calculation and found that I would not be able to stay surfaced and get into the proper positon. (the liner was doing 18 knots). I reluctantly ordered us to 30m, thereby losing the liner. After the aircraft were gone i was so pissed i surfaced and got into a surface battle with the liner. I won and it went to the bottom.
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All that aircraft traffic and the onset of radar techno;ogy must have made a kaleuns life hellish at times :arrgh!:

It all comes down to momentum, the slower you are going when you hit the crash dive the worse off it is for you.

The faster you are going when you hit the Alarm the more inertial drive the U-boat has and thus it can power under the water a little better, simple physics, the foward momentum counteracts the U-boat buoyancy and upthrust effect of the water, like dropping an ice cube into a drink, it will not float immediately. When you are sailing in areas that you know have lots of planes, such as off the North East of Scotland round the area of scappa flow, I recommend wherever possible making your U-boat move along at 1/3 power. So that it will respond appropriately.

Unless of course its a IID you have in which case no worries as they sink like a brick when you hit the alarm! The VIIC's are not bad by half either. The thing about aircraft is, the U-boat's hull integrity drops like a stone when they start peppering you with bullets. A far cry to stock where the U-boat was essentially impervious to bullets, as regards to hull integrity.

Fighting Sunderlands is lethal. I don't advise it in the slightest. The worse is, after they pass over they can still pelt machine gun fire at you by way of an aft gunner.

Give it a couple of years and see what the rocket armed aircraft do to your hull integrity!! :arrgh!:

Rockets? as in... WHOOOSH!!! followed by "BOOOOOMMMMM!!!" type rockets? :gulp:

Yep....and who knows but there might even be an appearance by the jet engined Gloster Meteor :arrgh!:

Hi all,

I just got the Type IX/3 Conning Tower and had them install the Flakvierling(sp?) So far I can dispatch bombers that come at me pretty darn well with it, dare I say... ease? I just got it recently but I took down 6 bombers in a row! The problem then becomes that they start coming at your every 2 minutes!(slight exaggeration) That's enough so I started diving when my Radar man notified me of Radar Signals detected. Note: I wait until they are about mid-range(or still a little farther out than mid range) and do a course change and go from 9 knots to ahead Flank. I try to set myself up so that when I go to make the course change it will put the enemy bomber at about a 90 degree angle to me at the end of the course change.

I am avoiding fighters, because I feel they are small and would get me with their machine guns, even when up aginst the venerable Flakvierling. If my Radar man tells me that he has detected a Radar Signal, and then shortly thereafter reports another, it seems I can be pretty sure that is a pair of fighters coming my way and not a bomber, and so I dive.

This is still early-mid '43, how well the Flakvierling will hold up to bombers in late '43 / early '44 I don't know.



Cheers

Hi!

In stock Silent Hunter III: no. In GWX: yes. There is a section on "New Weapons" in the GWX manual.

Pablo

Yeah! met a couple of them in TC64 once! :o haven't used above TC16 since...

Right now being pestered by Swordfish north of Scotland. They come in pairs and triplets (?), so guess they have a nest around... haven't found anything yet... May 28, 1940...

LMAO....I wonder why :rotfl: :rotfl: