In a perfect setting (if there is such a thing)...perpendicular and ahead :arrgh!:

Hi and welcome Sebbe02

The ideal attack is as Jim said
Very rarely do you get into an ideal attack position

Thnx, I tought it would be like that, but wanted to be sure.
I'm more of the "lay completely still and make a stealth shot" type, but I might combine it with that technique, if only for the fun of it.:smug:

Thank you for the welcome, bigboywooly, but actually I'm not new. I picked up SH3 after a 6month pause, and had to reregister. (for some reason, my old one wouldn't work anymore, I couldn't post messages...:shifty: ). My former one was simply Sebbe.

My new campaign is in a 7B out of St. Nazaire, by the way. Started in '40.

Welcome to all noobs :D

I did it again!

Another successful surface attack. Too out 3 ships, almost lined up for the stern tube but a Star Shell lit up right above me so it was alarm time.

But yes, surface attacks are lots of fun and muchly intense.:D

You have become as nutty as the rest of us. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Well done Penelope, but I don't think I am going to try this in my precious career, I don't like to take risks with escorts :oops:

....and I like to hear the band on my return and sample the fine French wine/women :arrgh!:

Yes and that as well

In a convoy attack nothing ever works according to plan. Recognizing the "This is as good as it gets" moment, firing And getting the hell out is the secret for the payoff of gliding to a stop at the dock. Music, girls, flowers, wine. :sunny:

Brag, you are right and that is why this game is so great. One stupidity and your plan is void. If GWX is reality how many of us would be alive in 1945?

Not many I fear :nope: ...and I include myself in that number :lol:

I am making it my personal goal to survive the war

Mid-41, I had a very protracted night surface attack in what appeared to be hurricane conditions. Visibility was about 500M and due to the heavy seas it was possible to get sporadic sound contacts while maneuvering on the diesels. Using a high periscope resolved any issues that would have made the UZO hard to use. Despite about five escorts or so, it was possible to maneuver within the convoy totally unhampered.

Finally, after causing a fair bit of trouble, an escort showed up. I crash dived, but didn't need to do much evasion. Simply creeping a little bit from where I went down and the escort's natural tendency to sweep back and forth, put them out of visual range. So, I was able to quickly surface with the escorts very close, and then sprint out their clutches; leaving them to hunt a ghost sub. Then, I resumed reloading and hunting for more prey. (Yes, someone was kind enough the other day to let me know that the escorts would be tied for about 30 minutes hunting the sub that wasn't there.)

It seems a storm presents a wonderful opportunity to hunt!

Yesterday I again did a surface attack on a convoy. Although the destroyers pretty much stayed tight with the merchants still holes remained to sneak into a half in front of the convoy position. Watersurface was smooth, no moon. I destroyed a merchant and then all searchlights lit up. I was forced to dive and to make my escape. I was DC'ed but everything went well untill I thought I was safe enough to use TC. Destroyed suddenly re-appeared and destroyer my scope. Had to return.