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Happy hunting!

great, that the community could help you out.
and (I forgot in the first moment) welcome aboard! :yep:

I started a career, follow a path to my patrol cuadrant and made my way through cold waters (the patrol is near Scotland). Reaching 1/4 of the journey, I received a message saying "new contact: slow, etc etc". The direction this ship is following, leading it right to...ME! I kept myself submerged and reduce the speed... but no new contact was done! The initial distance was 20km aprox. I decided to surface the boat, but I only could see the sea and the moon. No new contacts were made. I lost a ship once again.

So...

What was wrong?
What was my mistake?

Please, a little help is needed; I am sure that when I was able to fire some torpedos to a ship, I would never stop til the Iron cross!

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Was it a message from your hydrophone guy or a radio message?

watch this small vid.
it sure will help you finding your sonar-contacts:
http://nefelodamon.blip.tv/

Thank you again; maybe the game's standard realistic settings are "more realistic" than Aces of the deep's.

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By the way; I think the message came from the sonar guy. But now I am not sure.

It probably came from the sonar guy.
Dive to 20/25 meters and stop engines.

You have to know that there is a huge difference between the GHB (the hydrophones you start with) and the KDB with is better. The first one has trouble hearing in front and back. So turn your sub so the contact is either left or right of your sub.

Get into the hydrophone set. Find where that sound is coming from. Go on the map, use ruler to draw a line from your sub to where the sound comes from.
Go back to hydrophone station, do not move the needle and wait until the sounds goes away. Check which side that sound went to : so you now if the ship is going to your right or to the left of your current position. Go back to the map and set up an interception course.

For example. if you hear a sound left of your sub and it's going UP to the north, plot a 45 degree interception course, 45 degrees higher than the line you draw from where the contact was. Surface, go full ahead (setting 4 or 5) and make sure you have men in good shape on conning tower.

Run like that for 10 minutes, dive again. Repeat.

As soon as the ship is spotted, check at which distance is it. Try to find out where it's going. Check then what torpedoes you have, and what their maximum range is : if it's type II for example, it's 5 Km. Draw a 5 Km circle, and put it over your target. You will have to draw a line that begins at the target, and marks on the map it's course. Add two lines to create a "tunnel" of where your torpedoes can it.

Check the following pics for explanations.

Here I'm very close so instead of doing a 5 Km circle for my type II torpedo, I'll draw a 1 Km circle.

First, I'm on surface, and I see ships. I choose my target (usually, the biggest one). First thing I do is check depth under keel, so I know already, and then I choose the biggest target.

http://perso.orange.fr/gilbert.ferna...3_attack_1.png

Now I start a line with the ruler where the ship is and where it is going :

http://perso.orange.fr/gilbert.ferna...3_attack_2.png

Now I need to know where I can shot. Let's imagine the ship is 10 Km away and I am loaded with type II torpedoes, that have a 5 Km range. I need to draw a 5 Km wide circle and put it over the ship :

http://perso.orange.fr/gilbert.ferna...3_attack_3.png

Now I add two lines from each side of the circle, which I make parralel to the line that starts from the ship. This creates a kind of "Tube" and I can only shoot my torpedoes when inside of it :

http://perso.orange.fr/gilbert.ferna...3_attack_4.png

Here the tube is drawn and it shows me where I have to shoot. What is left is change my course. What I usually do is I chose a course that will bring me 90 degrees to either side of the target's path. Sometimes I have
to shadow it, so I choose to make a parralel course to this attack tube, to get farther ahead and dive when I'm within or close to the attack area I have chosen :

http://perso.orange.fr/gilbert.ferna...3_attack_5.png

Since I am very close here (within 5 Km) I can plot a 90 degree interception course dive and shoot as soon the ship will be where my gyroscope angle will be 355 to 0) :

http://perso.orange.fr/gilbert.ferna...3_attack_6.png

You do the same kind of thing to plot where you are going to intercept a ship. You plot where you think it is, and where you think it is going. If the weather is not too bad, you can see the ship within 8, perhaps 9 Km away. So you make a 8-9 Km circle and draw this kind of tube. Then you move as fast as you can to get within that tube and try to find the ship inside of it.

With some mods like GWX 3.0 Gold you have charts. Estimating the target speed you can know how many Km it will do per hour. Then, you calculate where you will be in 1, 2 or 4 hours, and do the same for the target. So you know where the ship will be, and where you will be. And plot a course so you will be within 10 km or less of that interception area. This is when you are starting to get better at drawing interception plots :arrgh!:

Thank you very much!
This is an awesome help and a big work.
I will put this instructions in practice tonight. I am sure that now those ghost ships will have no opportunity at all!

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