As soon as I crawl out of the Type II and back into the VII u fools pull me back in!! :nope:

Hehe. Black Sea sounds like fun to me. Put on Fubars camo and I am good to go!:up:

Yes , join the 30 th:up:
Short trips, some 10-12 days then time for the girls:rock:
If you go ahead full on the surface it only takes some 80+ hours from one end to the other. In calm seas, that is:arrgh!:

Any more thoughts on this? I pulled out a few mods, but it's still showing low res in the attack periscope room (that room between the bridge and control room...what IS that room called?)

Could it be related to the 'correct periscope position' mod for the Type II? Or is this just a stock GWX thing?

RE: 'goodies'. Do the IIDs get radar? (Not just detection, but actual radar transmitters?)

did my first black sea patrol last night in a IID. Loved it. Sunk a few ships. Also noticed the crazy russian convoy behavior.

Gotta get the dual flack tower too! Great addition and only 300 renown :up:

So thats were you are:lol: In the conning tower.
I have not noticed any difference between the different gauges. I´m in my type VIIb at the moment so I can´t check until later. As for radar look in tech tree when in the upgrade screen, press the ? mark in lower right corner. I´m in Aug -43 and no radar in sight.

CONNING TOWER! Yes, that's it! I forgot the term, nuke boats don't have one of those.

Xander.I've not noticed any difference in the guages,sorry it took so long to answer you but I've limited time on SHIII(BLoody work Grrrrrr:nope: )Still plodding away in my canoe of the east coast of england,3 more merchants won't be returning to port,and neither will they're 2 armed trawler escorts(god I hate those things,shallow draft and they turn on a dime)I'm really thinking of a run in the black sea though,it would appear this years(1942)holiday destination.sun,vodka and mad russians to sink,whats not to love!:up: Finally got my twin flak for my typeIID,Miss PG was right,I,like the thicky Iam was editing the wrong file:oops: what a prat!but it works a treat,as a lowly,as in under the sea,anson found out;)

do it Nik. The black sea is great. Not very big so fuel isn't a huge concern but it is very deep. Also with some radar detection its easy to find the Rusky convoys :up:

U-137 Out!

concerning radar, I'm not much of a late war skipper, but I don't like anything that can easily broadcast my position to others, never used radar successfully but did get 2 brand new IXD2s blasted out from under me in Biscay 2 days out form bordeaux by forgetting to turn it off at start of the patrol.

radar :-?

question: The russians seem to cluster together in heavily escorted convoys Merchant to escort ratio about 1:1, admittedly I haven't visited the safer (for them that is) southern areas yet, If I want to stalk lone victims, would that be the place to go?

also, what's up with the storozhevoy, 3k tons for a DD, the russians like them big? does it carry more wodka that way? or is it a Light Cruiser...?

oh well off to sink a few...:|\\

Sinking tankers in port with one fish
 

Kaleuns:

Has anyone perfected the art of sinking tankers in port with one fish? I have enjoyed raiding ports in my IID becasue I only have time to do a patrol in a single evening. Past discussion in other threads has focused on how to sink tankers with the fewest number of fish. I have never encountered a tanker in deep water yet, so I cannot comment on the probability of sinking a tanker with one fish to the engine room over deep water, but it doesn't work in port because the stern hits bottom. Using magnetic pistols under the aft edge of the forward superstructure (where the back breaks) results in a 30% sink probability (broken back), and a second fish to the engine room with a contact pistol results in a 60% sink probability (if the back didn't break). Past posts describing one-fish techniques do not specify keel depth, and having tried them I assume their effectiveness is restricted to deep water. The port I raid most often is Hartlepool, and I am currently exploring whether the same is true in other ports. Barring a variation in keel depth, I don't anticipate any difference.

I´ve seen small unescorted convoys coming out of Samsun on the Turkish coast. And you might find loners if you go close to the eastern shores of the "lake":up:

I wish I could do that.... instead of my meagre harbour raiding attempts...

@XanderF
I´m in my canoe now, better known as U-24, and no, I do not have any lowres gauges in the conning tower. Coming to think of it I don´t even have the TLowRes folder in my Textures folder. Deleted it as the game reads it even when it´s not needed. I think it was the Kptn himself that wrote something on this, you get better game performance without it. In my Textures\TNormal\tex folder I have only three .tga files. I f you haven't already, try moving your \TLowRes folder somewhere else and see what happens.

Right,so I've started a black sea TypeIID career,any advice for sinking the vodka swilling hordes:arrgh!: Anyone?

Well that was strange,started the first patrol,sailed out of constanza everything fine.didn't get to far as had to do something so exited out and docked at constanza,came back to it today,started the second patrol and at the loading screen it tells me that my base has changed to lorient and dumps my typeIID just of the southwest coast of africa:o :huh: :damn: what the hell is that all about!:down: so I've had to delete the career and start again,just finished my first patrol out of constanza again and am now worried about starting another patrol incase it dumps me in the middle of no where again,has this happened to anyone else?