Your experiences with U-flak
 

I have SHIII with no supermods (I have some cosmetic mods like the ship explosion mod, etc). I decided to get U-flak with three quads. Before, I had trouble damaging planes, and generally if I did shoot down a plane, they inflicted far too much damage/casualties to make it worth it. But now with my u-boat bristling with AA guns, I figured I'd even the score.

I decided to do a 'test patrol' by sailing near england leaving my radar on, to lure in planes. I was pretty impressed with how many planes I could shoot down, but again the victory was costly- the conning tower puts so many men abovedecks that one unlucky bomb hit takes out a lot of crew members :nope:

However, I still intend to keep the U-flak, because it is certainly devastating against a small number of planes; the clip size and amount of lead in the air certainly rips apart approching planes.

I believe it's general practise during the late war. You don't need a deck gun (not usefull because ships are armed, even merchants) and there are a lot more planes. U-Flak is a must later on in the game!

Yeah, one incentive to getting it was that using the deck gun was getting too dangerous anyway. Plus it is so much fun lighting up aircraft :|\\

Tell the watch officer to engage aircraft at long range, and sometimes you nail planes before they even drop their bombs. Another hysterical thing that happens is having a crippled plane crash into a wingman when they are in tight formations. :rock:

i once took out 8 planes off ireland in 3 hrs! had a U flak with 3 double mount 37mm's

I have been thinking about getting a U-flak but only if I can run into air patrols with 50+ planes. (I'm seem to be obcenely good at hitting planes for some reason)

In my current career its nov 1943, and I havent seen a single plane...:roll:

(GW1.1a)

Stock damage model, Uflak is alot of fun. Its alike a mini game unto itself. Just configure a 7c/41 or 7c/42 with it in the basic.cfg, and start a test career in 43-44, bring it out and man the guns. Fun stuff.

Funny U-flak has been mentioned. I had one for an escort out of Lorient on my 30th patrol on June 11th of 43. Periscope ID said it was a Type VII/C41. She ran along with us for 20km. Good thing as we were attacked by 6 Sunderlands. We shot down 2 and they got 2, but they were sunk by the last 2.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v64/GT182/U-Flak.jpg

Thats amazing GT182...what mod if any are you using ? (GW I'm hoping):D

what boats can mount the 3 flak guns? is the uflack a particular boat or just a configuration of a boat?:o

Its a config of the VIIC class you can get a U-flak by selecting the 4th watch tower type

No Jimbuna, I'm not using GW just yet. The only mod that probably has this U-Flak is Harbor Traffic 1.47, which I am using..... along with 70 other mods. ;) LOL And I've only seen it the once so far. And that was a lucky screenshot only because it was so close.

Thx GT..I have an installation of HT 1.47 too...but I've obviously never seen it on that either...you got me intrigued now mate...am gonna go boss eyed looking for it :o

when does the U-Flak tower become available?

cool video btw!! :up:

:o That...was...soooo......coool!!!! Excellent video, mate! I have never managed to get all of my flak guns to be the twin 3,7! Ehhh...how do you do it...? :oops: Do you need the "flak conning tower" thing?:oops::oops:

Jimbuna, I saw the U-Flak June 11th of 43 heading out on patrol from Lorient. Was heading directly south from the mouth of the channel for about 20kms. It was off to my left about 2000 meters. Have patience and you'll see one too...hopefully.

Dietrich, that was a great video. :up: How'd you get one to run? I didn't think they were an option in SHIII. I'm sure more of us would like to give it a try too.

:huh: I...want....no, no...wait....I covet one.... :rock:

yeah, HT 1.47, or 1.46, i forget which. It's the only what i call "core campaign" mod that has it for some reason. Unified campaign (or UC for short), which in all acutalilty is HT 1.48 doesnt have it. Ultimatly i think both GW and NYGM started with specialized versions of UC as a base foundation and everything built up on it from there. Why AI Ulfak only appears in HT 1.47ish i've no idea. Something that cool, you'd think they'd have ported it into next versions. If it does exist in later versions, i've never seen it.

You need to have a VII with the type 4 conning tower. To get three heavy flack positions, you need to ckick on one of the positions and then selected the heay flack of your choice. Choose the next position and repeat the process to change it and the next.

Then your ready to do some serious hunting!!:arrgh!:

Ahhh...Thanx, my librarian mate! :rock: really looking forward to this now!!!! :up: