I play the game @ 100 realism, most of the time( i love the camera to check out the damage done)

So anyways..I have never been past 1943..Just not that good.

Also i do play GWX GOLD<--that might be a reason :)

I completed a 1940-1945 career in a Type VIIC boat. Once you load it up with ECM (namely the radar warning receivers) it's not so bad in 44-45. So long as you like diving to periscope depth frequently. The VIIC's agility and small ASDIC cross-section definitely help you out quite a bit, as does Alberich and Tarnmatte.

Could you give us some info regarding your tonnage? I am curious to know about your tonnage for the period starting from autumn of 1943 till the end of the war.
I've managed to survive the war too :smug: ...but in the last 7 months of the war i was in a type VIIC/41 Uboat. Oh boy! What a boat! I could go deep, really deep. Actually, i made my deepest dive with this Uboat and IIRC it was 325m. The most interesting part though was -besides trying to dive as deep as possible- when i noticed that when my Uboat passed the depth of 300m the destroyers would always give up using their ASDIC. Soon afterwards they would give up depthcharging me too.

Has anyone else noticed this? I hope so...

Anyway, i was thinking that depth charges in GWX -as far as i know- won't go deeper than 300m. So this is a "depth" threshold for them and it should also mean that 300m is the maximum detonation depth too. Would this be the reason why destroyers stop using their ASDIC? Would it be, at least, related to this fact? Another possible case i can think of is the one where the destroyers won't use their ASDIC when they search under a certain depth (300m in this case) cause its not effective enough.

Oooops! Now that i had a second thought i think that the last point is far from true. Well, i'm not so sure...:hmmm:

Whatever. Conclusion. Have you ever noticed the "300m threshold for ASDIC" phenomenon? Is this sthg well known around here? Am i among the last people to find out?

BTW, congrats for surviving the war!:yeah: :woot:

I went to open up my old career files to take a look and give you a precise GRT sunk figure, when I realized this completed career was a year or more ago and I have since then switched computers and freshly installed SH3, etc, etc. I should have remembered that I wasn't on the old computer, as it isn't crashing every hour and a half. :rotfl:

The majority of my tonnage was definitely in 1940-1943. I simply stopped attacking convoys in late 1942, finding it to be far too risky. I did not go between Ireland and England, and I kept away from the South-Eastern Approach into the channel. I had some success attacking individual ships along the coast and a number of successful infiltrations into English harbours (not Scottish harbours, however).

Current campaign is a "dead is dead" career and I intend to make it to the end of the war, but in a IXD2 that may be asking a bit much. I'm at 108.3 GRT as recorded in the log, I don't know what that means but seeing as how I've had several 100+K patrols I assume that to be ~108 million tons sunk.

I know that the idea of not attacking convoys after 1943 is quite a temptation. I always go for it cause i like the excitement. Well, its always up to the player to decide if, how, when and who he attacks.
If you ever attack a late war convoy i suggest you do it when you're in a type VIIC/41.:03: Its fascinating cause even if you get spotted or detected underwater you can always perform a really deep dive given that the Uboat's hull is unmolested...

Good luck with your new DID career.:rock::up:
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Survived the war?

.....I won it!!! :arrgh!:

I did not finish my first two campaigns (one in Atlantic and one in Mediterranean) both of them with a type VIIC. Now I'm with a IX-C in '42; I hope to go at least past the black may 43... the long range patrols could help.

If you are careful, it is still possible to attack convoys later in the war. You might not always take up a position inside the screen, but FaT and LuT torpedoes increase your odds of hitting something with longer shots.

I always attempt to attack a convoy even late in the war. The only time I don't go through with an attack is if I am unable to get a shot off that has a reasonable chance to hit - either because I don't have sufficent data or I can't get into a good enough firing position.

My most recent patrol had me leaving St. Nazaire in August 1944 in my VIIC, for a mission west of Ireland. After several successful days of patrolling I was down to 3 FaT IIs in the forward tubes and a Zaunkoenig in the stern tube, when I detected a convoy running south just a few km east of my position. The fog was medium so I had to rely on hydrophones to build up a picture of the convoy. It had quite a few escorts (I never got a complete count but suspect at least 7), So I had to manouevre carefully. I managed to get into a slightly unfavourable firing position about 800m aft of the last row and about 1200m off the nearest column. I fired two of the three FaT IIs (I kept one in reserve in case I needed a coup de grace) and got two hits, each of which sank a ship. As soon as I fired, I went deep and evaded the trailing escorts.

Yeah, i won't disagree with you. Its possible to make successful attacks on late war convoys. Personally, i depend on weather conditions. I won't attack a convoy when the sea is calm. I believe that preferable weather conditions are 11-12 m/s, 16km visibility, no/partial clouds and always at night. I tend to attack from a position in front of the convoy, afew hundred meters away from the outer column closest to me. Thats why my Uboat suffers minor or major damage (it depends) ; DD's detect me and i fail to take notice of this outcome. BTW, have you ever noticed that when you go deeper than 300m the destroyers stop using their ASDIC?