Black Swan......*sigh*
 

Had my first run-in with a Black Swan frigate.......gawd......tenacious little bastards, arent they?.....if anyone should care to share some tips on how to lose these bloodhounds of ze royal navy, I should be most grateful.......until then....dive deep.




Have a nice day :)

See point 3 here:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=121566

Hang about at periscope depth until it is about 500m from you then fire a magnetic eel running at 1m. Gets em most times.

Other than that run away as soon as you see him.:D

The do the job they were designed to do... kill us.

My dad was a Leading Coder in the RCNVR during WWII, from 1941 to 1945. He didn't talk about it much (as is usual for combat veterans), but the only U-Boat kill he ever participated in, (HMCS Huntsville) was pretty much the work of an RN Black Swan that used the Squid forward-throwing dc system. The U-Boat was thoroughly killed.

He said that him and several mates were sent in a motor launch to pick up 'evidence' of the kill...

Do you mean the Hedgehog?

And yes, I too really hate the Black Swan class:damn: I tend to avoid them if I can, if not I go deep and keep quiet till it gives up the attack.

ive tried that.....its just that I utterly despise using ordnance on something as trivial as a destroyer or frigate when it would be so much more useful up the propshaft of, say, a large tanker :) I had a two hour dc attack before he gave up, now im trying to catch up with the remains of the convoy :arrgh!:



Have a nice day :)

I couldn't agree more about wasting ordnance, however if its a matter of life and eath and you can make the shot why not get him off your back and be done with it? You get a free ride then to get back with the convoy and there is one less DD in the world for the cost of a torpedo.

Looks like you sorted it out anyway. Your only problem now is that you'll probably have to suffer another 2 hours under DC from the same Black Swan after you attack again.

Such is the life of a Kaleun...

Have a good one yourself :)

Phah
Black Swans are nothing much
When compared to the River class frigate

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I'll be honest and say that I dont really see that much of the sod hunting me. I try not too use external camera except for seeing the explosions or looking for screenshots. If i see a warship the scope goes down immediately and it just gets classified in my head as destroyer and filed under s for stay away from :D

I have the utmost respect for anybody who can differentiate a river class from a black swan at an angle :up:

thanks mate, i thought i was the only one to be like that... are there actually differences in the toughness of those depth-charging suckers?

Call me crazy but I really don't like messing with Convoy escorts. And as long as I don't get arrogant they can be put down. As to the target validity, if it's flying an ensign of a hostile nation it's a target. Valid or not I don't know, I'm not a therapist and haven't had talks about self-esteem with 'em.

Don't get me wrong. My normal modus operandi is to keep well away from anything with DC's. Only if I can;t get out from under em do I think about having a pot shot and only then if they are on their own.

The best way to kill a Black Swan is to ram into it's side, disabling it, with your U-boat stuck in it's flank. Then quickly board it with your crew, punch the captain in the face - John Wayne style, then poke him in the eyes a few times and make the rest of the officers bunk with Bernard for the rest of the voyage. Sonar operators, make them listen to heavy metal at full volume for a few hours = end of their careers. :rock:

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I suppose that one way of dealing with a Black Swan..........

Thats what I say to myself every encounter.