Ive noticed that when your moving with time compression and you notice a slowdown or stutter of your submarine on the map. There might be a contact nearby and then I submerge and a lot of the time the hydrophone picks one up.

Yes, lagging usually means that something is nearby. I avoid using high tc (512+) unless I'm in a relatively "safe" area where no contacts are expected. 1/3 speed seems to be a "happy medium": you'll still get where you want to go but you won't waste diesel, exhaust your engine crew or have to go along at a crawl.

So, currently submerged in grid AN26, going at 3 knots. No contacts, but it might just be that BdU sent me to an empty grid.

On the bright side, I'll now have Jimbuna's 300+ gramophone tracks to keep me company. :p

in one of my previous careers, aboard Type II, I often patroled AM26 and found a lot of targets in the area.

AM52\AM02 is one of my faves
Plenty of action around BF17 etc too

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Well, I think my luck is turning. Only four ships sunk for a total of 13,000 tons, but hey, I'm happy. ;) I ran across two ships southeast of the Shetland Islands, a coastal tanker and medium merchant, and then two more on my way down, an Old Split Merchant or whatever and then a Danish (Oops...) medium cargo. Got a little greedy on the last one and mistook the flag for the Red Ensign. :oops:

I need to work on my aim some, I think, as I used up the the entire forward torpedo stores, save for the external, on those four ships. :doh:

Early war patrol GWX 3.0 and targets galore! Found about 4 smaller vessels off the northern tip of Scotland outbound for my patrol grid near the Rockall bank. Smoked ´em with the deck gun.

After arriving in the assigned area i decided to take a little dip a little west of the Bank for ´rundhorchen´. I couldn´t believe my luck, multiple contacts! It was a small flotilla of 2 auxiliary cruisers and a DD. They were coming right at me, I only had to align my bow a little to get a perfect firing solution. Zapped those 2 cruisers, the DD never even found me. They are pretty helpless in the early days. (their time will come though)

A big ore carrier found it´s watery grave a day later a little south of this area......

November ´39 and the future looks bright:sunny:

Hunting ground GWX3.0.Gold
 

:D Hi everyone :D

In february 1943 , Grid " EB21 " is damn good :yep: :p
Also " The gulf of Mexico " is good . Near " The port of spain ",


If you follow the " EB21 route " You run into this , a large troopship:p :o :yep:

In the next post you can see my spots in 1943 from the map:p :)




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Yea it was a fluke cause I find em a plenty now. The submerge regularly in heavy traffic areas really pays off as well. My last mission, feb 40' mission 6 I ran out of torpedo's before I even cleared the north of Scottland and with my final four I came across a Light cruiser followed by two auxillary cruisers. I couldnt set up a run on the first cause he was too quick so I used the second to set my TDC up and let loose a spread of four on the third. One pre- detinated and the other three were dead on at 1700 meters with target going 24 knots. Not bad i say and I must be getting alot better. Wether was bad but no rain!:sunny:

Spots on the map , 1943
 

:D Hellooo :D

I have draw lines and marked with an X where you can find big big ships

Such as "Whale factory " ships , " Troopships " , " Large Tankers " ,
" Ceramic ocean Liners " and , , " Large Troopships " .:p :p :cool: :cool:

As you can see from the map , I'm not so good to draw lines :oops: :oops: :dead: :dead: :roll:

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That map is easily contender for the most useful pullout in SH3. :lol: It's saved me a lot of mucking about in the past.

really good post, Pisces....

Give or take a hindred or so miles either way :lol:

I'll stick to the accuracy of the SpySat ;)

Today I encountered a Large Tanker just east of Scapa Flow, july 1940! Beat that!:smug:

Easy Peasy! Sank an Invincible class aircraft carrier off Norway in 1940.:lol: