Welcome, alexlab

Mmm. As others explained this required luck.
For me, I have sunk no capital ship. Encountered none neither. But I still have some success in my career.

But I must emphasis that your main role is not sink battleships but merchant shippings. Comparing successful USA and German commerce raiding by submarines, and the fruitless Japanese attempt in sinking warships, we can see the difference. (Notice that Imperial Japanese Navy operates a great submarine fleet at the start of Pacific War, with the most submarine types, some of the best ones like I-400s, and arguably the best torpedo --- the type 95, derived from the famous type 93 long lance)

Is that because USA and German has better stragetical position that results in their difference? Not really. USA has equally vulnerable supply lines from USA east coast to forward bases like Peral Harbour or Midway. But her inability to exploit this weakless equated her defeat

Remember your main duty!

I don't go intentionally looking for a warship to sink, I just happen to be lucky enough to run into a lot of them so far. Career 2 in my personnel file, I sunk 2 Revenge Class BBs, 1 CV, and HMS Hood, all within 8 months. I'm not going to pass up an opportunity to sink something that big if I can help it:yep:

Plenty out there though! Just have to be in the right place at the right time.

Alexlab - Used to have the same frustration as you... Where are the 'juicy' targets? Honestly - I upgraded to Grey Wolves (GWX) 2 months ago and have NOT been disappointed yet! I regularly go hunting north of Ireland (early war - 1940-41) and usually will come across a decent sized convoy escorted by a Nelson Class BB right in the middle! Only got her once but what a treat just to see her! Seriously try GWX - and welcome from one new guy to another!

I guess the British uses cheaper and cheaper escort ships as war drag on. Havn't tried attacking convey by GWX much through (I use NYGM due to the less capable computer config of my notebook)

Not even regular DDs. They substitute it by a whole **** lot of flowers, black swans! Battleships are diverted to Japan.

BTW finally tried successfully sinking the auxillery cruiser in NYGM :)

If you talk about where have the BBs gone? Simple. War with the Japanese

GWX makes it significantly harder to find (forget sink!) a capital ship (as far as I know, which isn't that much :P). Stock SH3 spawns capital ships regularily in Loch Ewe and Scapa Flow. The rest of the time, they spawn randomly on patrol without set guidelines for dates and stuff.

On the contrary.....if you read the GWX manual you will find BB's scripted into the game with a high percentage of historical accuracy...and that includes convoys on numerous occassions http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...ies/pirate.gif

:yep: in my current GWX campaign I sunk: HMS Nelson, HMS Rodney and 2 Aux. Cruisers more then I can recall in Stock SH3.

I've noticed when you hunt for capital ships you will not come across any, if you just take on whatever crosses your path you may be suprised what you'll see throught the scope.

HunterICX

All the capital ships i sank were during the beginning of the war, all in harbours: HMS Revenge in Scapa and HMS Nelson in Loch ewe in 1939, HMS Illustrious in Scapa in april 1940 (tough one because of all these torpedo planes patrolling around) and HMS King Georges V in Scapa in december 1940.

Once i met another KGV BB in deep water north of ireland in January 1941, but i had only TI in my tubes so the attack failed.:damn:
So i confirm that it's very rare to meet a capital ship once England is at war with our vaillant japanese allies.
But you can still spend your frustration on pricy DDs like Tribal, V&W or class C till mid1942 (once i sank 5 of these bastards in a single mission). After mid1942, Royal Navy send only crappy escorts with the convoys like Flowers or BlackSwan, so the military glory for sinking escorts is dropping.

Anyway any encounter with an interesting military target outside harbours is totally random, so don't count on it too much. It's a pity, because i 'd better sink military targets than commercial targets, but on the other side i'd better sink any allied ships than no ship at all during months.:roll:

Ok this time i've met something REALLY weird ! :D

I was sailing back after a patrol to ST. Nazair in the hope i could meet some juicy targets because my patrol was really bad.

I was sailing very close to the spanish coast when i found this task force even closer to the coastline lol :p

It was the first time that i saw the treasure they were protecting.

It was a bogue escort and i thought YEAH :arrgh!:

But they were so fast and changed their course very strangely so i couldnt get a hit :nope:

One 'almost' sure fire way to catch captital ships is to arrainge your patrol time out of the Bay durring the Bismark encounter.

A bunch of Task forces cruise around durring the Norway invasion.

You can catch a few fast Task forces close N/E of Norway very later war.

And like others have mentioned, alot is just luck on patrol. Although sometimes the luck isn't good. :dead:

I've found the Med also has it's share.

I lived my career many times over, and yet to see a battleship:cry: I even tried to sneak into Scapa '39 in the hope of seeing Royal Oak, but alas, no...

i think you were JUST too late i fear because i tried that too and sailed on a more higher speed then normal and i've found them there.
The next day however i saw 3 battleships including the hood sailing passed me.
That was an amazing sight ! :arrgh!: