Your cahonies are larger then mine :rotfl:

Ive never even THOUGHT of attempting that. :hmm:

Ducimus said :
That has to be the quote of the day !

I fully agree with you . :D
Without being "cocky" , sinking Destroyers is my speciality ;)

When I leave Lorient with my VII-B U-100 "Blackcat" , I always carry 2 Acoustic Torps as well as one TI fat 2 . For starters :yep:

We are Greywolves and sinking Warships is a matter of pride , and almost a must I should say . Sinking Civilians marchants cripple England 's supply lines ~I agree~ but sending an Enemy warship Cpt. down the bottom while waving at him is nothing short of highly rewarding !! :up:

Sink the Bastards !!!

B. Goelf out .

Cheers .

Yes, we ARE the Greywolves!

Sink da bastards, and don't lose any sleep over it! :D :up:


M out!

Amen . :D

Cheers .

I will take them on sometimes, especially if i am being hunted by more than one of them, I get sick of running and cometo periscope depth, it's great knocking one off and knowing there are only 2 left.
even better getting another one.

Hunt and kill the escorts, then sink the entire convoy at will.

Never fails.


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When he comes in sight point your bow towards him and go full power

when he sees you at about 6000 meters out, keep ypour bow EXACTLY at him (smallest silouhette possible) run back full and gun him down as he makes poor ass attempts to shoot ya... :yep:

but do the shooting yourself, you are better than the AI... :D


and keep the Flak manned as well... i ve been surprised by HCanes and Sunderlands when doing that... :o

I agree that the entire point of the UBoot is to deprive the allies of supplies.Purposely wasting munitions on DD's is cause for censure and discipline.
The kaleun of such a boot, better sleep lightly and well armed, just to avoid a "tragic accident" . :damn:

Yep i must say i have dualed it out with trawlers before. :arrgh!:
Though had to go back to base earlier than expected on my last patrol at the start of 41, as i desided it might be fun to shoot it out with the escort of a convoy i was shadowing. I managed to sink 2 DD's before being forced to submerge and hide. When it was safe to come up i had a wrecked bridge and a HI of 10% some how i managed to make it back to port. God i love my deck gun crew:yep:

My thoughts exactly, and this is how I play. About the only time I'll sink a DD is if I'm being harrassed and it's one of those "can't miss" stern shots down their throat. Nine times out of ten there's a much better target nearby, and in the cases where you come across a lone DD, it's usually better to just avoid it.

really depends on how lucky I'm feeling. usually I won't waste the torps, because if you miss somehow or it doesn't sink you're going to have a bitch of a time for the next 2 hours trying to evade him. I used to go after lone or duet DDs in 40-41 but then i discovered the tankers and never go back. however during that time I've also raided several harbours and sunk several patrolling destroyers, if killing one will buy me time to escape, by all means. Even managed a stern shot once. After 43 or so I don't wanna mess with them in packs, I'd rather sink the tankers. Intercept convoy, wait for the DD's to pass, then unleash hell. Dive deep and change directions.

Well, this might sound stupid, but first i check the depth of their keel, lets say its 3,2 meters. I then set a magnetic torp at 4 meters, and the i make sure they notice me (flank speed). the stupid brits then turn against my position at full speed. I plot a collision course towards them, and fire the magnetic torp at about 3500-3600 meters, so it can impact before they start zig-zagging. then i just watch the big boom in the scope.

Sometimes I'll tke out the lead destroyer in a convoy, as it's a great diversion. When you sink him (he's often the biggest and baddest of the escorts), the other's race to find me, but by the time they get to where there leader went down, I'm in the middle of the convoy, ripping it apart!

God I love being a U-boat skipper, I get to put the fear of God into Churchill!:up:

lol run or hide? i surface and take em on with my deck gun!!! The trick is to stay behind them so your only dealing with one of there guns :arrgh!:

Oh and playing on 0% realism :rotfl:

sometimes I try to sink them sometimes I hide. It depends on my mood. :yep:

Even though I'm new at SH3, I'm an old Aces of the Deep warrior. I'm not trying to be smart, just stating a fact: A submarine is stealthy for one reason ... it can dive and hide. On the surface, especially after 1942, radar makes life unbearable.

However, my method is simple, especially when I've encountered a convoy. Make a good approach, fire all forward torps at different ships, and dive deep. Once there, I go silent and play the cat-and-mouse game. Eventually, the DDs have to get back with their convoy (I've actually waited until they've expended all of the depth charges).

Then, I come slowly back up to periscope depth and pick off any ships my initial torpedoes didn't sink. After 1942, I never surface in the vicinity of a convoy, beacuse of the radar. Also, I never stay on the surface if there's an aircraft around, even early in the war. It's not worth the risk.

However, after the escort carriers make their appearance, I will do almost anything to get within range of one of them. Sink this ship, and convoy is back to DD/DE's. Any other boats participating in the attack will be safer, and have more luck against the merchies.

I overheard Bernard talking about this subject with the machinist (Bernard is active on subsim,you know), and he litteraly shocked me:

Bernard: "Well, theze deztroyers aren't so dangerouze after all. Sometimez they just pass overhead of you, trying to make contact. Since we cant szpeak with them under wasser, they use to send us some zort of code, like "Ping" "Ping".. And when they find out that we dont underztand them, they get angry and drop some boom-boomz at us. I believe that they only need a friend, zo next time they try to ping-ping us, i will blow ballazt und surface, so i can give all of them a nice group-hug.."

If Ive got time to avoid them then usually I'll just dive and keep an eye on it with the hydraphone and scope checks , But if it starts to take too much intrest in me or I get jumped by one the lookouts didnt see till to late then I get aggresive, im averaging 1 destroyer a cruise so far :D , my best was a V&W that i killed in a surface gun battle 3-4 days ago - I hit it with a torp and it turned and ran , so i surfaced and chased it (I have no idea why i did that) , got the deckgun to aim at weapons and killed all its guns , finished it off with waterline shots into its stern :D , sametime i was hitting the destroyer an armed trawler came running to its aid so i shot it up with the deckgun and AA gun as well :D

I am a "it depends"-kaleun. If the bearing is right, I attack. If its wrong I dive like a sunburned penguin and tell the crew to shut up, or else ...

If I'm on the surface and they haven't spotted me I go the other way until they disappear over the horizon. If I come across and opportunity I can;t resist I try to get as close as possible and then have a crack at them. If they have seen me I dive and evade.