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I tend to, should a destroyer catch me with mah pants down, evade his first attack and then while hes coming around nail him with 2 fast moving fish while praying they dont dud. If they do dud, then Im in for a bad time :dead:

I never shoot my torpedoes at destroyers unless I feel I have absolutely no choice. Every eel fired at an escort is one less merchant sunk.

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 1891647)

I never shoot my torpedoes at destroyers unless I feel I have absolutely no choice. Every eel fired at an escort is one less merchant sunk.

But sometimes hitting that lone convoy escort is worth the extra tonnage.

I would tend to agree, that if I can take out an escort, that gives me the chance for extra tonnage on the merchants. I don't want to use up 8 eels on an escort, but if taking one out gives me the ability to sink an extra merchie, even if it has to be by deck gun....seems worth it.

In my humble opinion.

Yeah wasting a few torps on that tiny 1000 ton DD so that you can sink the rest of the convoy with a mix of torps and deck gun is a very effective tatic. Now when theres multiple DDs thats an entirely differnt story, as once you shoot one the other come arushin and things get quite hetic. And scary.

i dont pick targets, if they fly a hostile flag, i will shoot them if they come near.

RP wise i think letting them live just give them a chance to become better at hunting u down, and when they have u pinned under they wont let u go, so why let them live?

GWX Rule#2

If you must insist on breaking rule #1 by entering the English Channel, ditch the TypeVII and get one of these:

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f2...07-TheMole.jpg

Since we're on the topic of evading destroyers....I got a doozy.

I was feelin proud at the helm of U-96. I get a contact report of a convoy entering Firth of Forth area. Well, that's where I was headed. So I make contact and manage to sink 2 merchants. Bad idea. There were 2 destroyers with that small convoy. I eventually had 3 destroyers, a Flower Corvette, and an ASW Trawler pinging me all at once. Well, the depth here is about 17 meters. Crappy evasion water. The Large Merchant and Large Tanker I sank each had just the bow under water so they were mostly still above water, but resting on the bottom. I puttered my way alongside the large merchant and dived right there so no ships could DC me. Well, they eventually stopped and nightfall came. The ships were just waiting me out. Pinging away. All 5. I floated up to scope depth and took a look around. The ships had their lights on. I managed to torp 3 of them. All I had left were my external reloads. Now, what happens next isn't realistic at all. I decided to surface for 7 minutes to get my external torpedoes. Right as I broke the surface and the watch crew crapped every pair of pants they owned, the threat indicator went green. ..... I was shocked. The remaining DD's were lighting me up with searchlights. But. Somehow, I got "lost in the outline" of the large merchant. I torp one more DD. The other one just motors away. I sat there in disbelief. 1941 and 2 DD's with searchlights cant see me. ASDIC couldn't get me on the surface I guess. I survived that mission with 20% hull integrity to spare. It took 8 hours of game time to evade. It's prolly my best story since I broke I into Scapa and got 40K tons of ships.

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Originally Posted by Red October1984 (Post 1891984)

Awesome story. I think I'll stay straight away from Jolly ole England. Especially after 1941.

How do you get your crew to get external torps loaded in 7 minutes. I'm in 1939, a VIIB boat, and its almost 10 minutes for me to get my external torps loaded.

External torpedoes? Realistically they should take an hour to load.

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 1892123)

External torpedoes? Realistically they should take an hour to load.

Realistic load times, what are those?? :har:

I think I have realistic reloads off then. With full crew effectiveness, it takes me 6-7 minutes to load my externals. I'm in a type VIIB (I know the U-96 is a VIIC, but make do with what you got) on 50% realism. My first career was transferred in June of '40 to training duties. (sh3 commander) So I copied and pasted my XO's name and continued the career as Karl Heinz-Broda instead of my name. That epic story happened to be Broda's 3rd. I was lucky there.....Im in the process of saving up for an IXB (7500 ugh) so I've been harbor raiding for tonnage. I kept hearing that Firth of Forth was good so I decided to head there. Then, that happened. :arrgh!: I am going to check up on my realism settings and switch realistic reloads on.

Red October,

Please don't change your settings because of my attempt at a joke. I don't use realistic load times, and I'm certainly not advocating anyone else.

Play this wonderful simulation/game the way YOU want to, just as I play it with the settings I want.

I was just "poking fun" at not only myself for not using that option, but because my friend Sailor Steve made a comment about load times.

I'm changing my settings because I want to. I didn't realize I was playing with reloads off. I'm not changing it because everyone else does. :D I always play the way I want to. Sometimes I recreate history, sometimes I play normally.

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Originally Posted by Red October1984 (Post 1892172)

Fair enough, mate. Best wishes and good hunting. :|\\