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Patboot 09-14-07 10:08 AM

Are you "Handed"?
 
When given a choice on which attack angle, what do you usually try to make?
I've found, oddly, that I'm always trying to get the target to pass port to starboard. Not that I don't take what's on the plate, but given time and choice, I will.

Anyone else have this quirk?

Dowly 09-14-07 10:10 AM

I usually attack head on. Go head-to-head with the convoy and when the position is right, laucnh the toprsös.

Kpt. Lehmann 09-14-07 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dowly
toprsös.

Are those potatoes?:arrgh!:

<Sorry, one shouldn't post when hungry.>

danlisa 09-14-07 10:44 AM

LOL, I think Dowly has 6-8 friends over for tea.:rotfl:

To answer the threads question:

Don't really have a preference. It totally depends on where I am when I receive the contact details.

If I get details of a convoy travelling SW and I'm travelling NW, I'm not about to get 'above' the convoy and turn around.;)

Jimbuna 09-14-07 11:07 AM

Approach from a position of ahead....and perpendicular to their course. :up:

I got some interesting text splatterings off him over on the TS log file....really made me blush they did :oops:

Dowly 09-14-07 11:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by danlisa
LOL, I think Dowly has 6-8 friends over for tea.:rotfl:

To answer the threads question:

Don't really have a preference. It totally depends on where I am when I receive the contact details.

If I get details of a convoy travelling SW and I'm travelling NW, I'm not about to get 'above' the convoy and turn around.;)

No, shut up. This teas's mine, mine alone. :arrgh!:

Canovaro 09-14-07 01:07 PM

I prefer right to left, because 0-90 is easier to work with than 360-270 (I use manual targeting with a torpedo bearing chart a lot)

papa_smurf 09-14-07 01:28 PM

Neither, I attack when I get a contact no matter the heading.

IrischKapitan 09-14-07 02:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Canovaro
I prefer right to left, because 0-90 is easier to work with than 360-270 (I use manual targeting with a torpedo bearing chart a lot)

Exactly like me.... :yep:

Kpt, Otto 09-14-07 03:46 PM

Head on...
 
When its comes to convoys I prefere to try to attack head on creeping around the escorts and getting amongst the convoy then attack from within.

For vessels sailing independantly, or straglers, I prefere to attack from the front and perpendicular to their course. Their course crossing port to starboard or vice versa doesn't matter to me really. :arrgh!:

Spruence M 09-14-07 05:11 PM

U-27 is like an old match.

Strike Anyway Baby!

:rock:

Brag 09-15-07 06:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dowly
Quote:

Originally Posted by danlisa
LOL, I think Dowly has 6-8 friends over for tea.:rotfl:

To answer the threads question:

Don't really have a preference. It totally depends on where I am when I receive the contact details.

If I get details of a convoy travelling SW and I'm travelling NW, I'm not about to get 'above' the convoy and turn around.;)

No, shut up. This teas's mine, mine alone. :arrgh!:

After drinking Dowly's tea, I usually end up a bit on the port side of the convoy, requiring a right turn to get perpendicular to the targets (that tea is wicked) :rotfl: :rotfl:

Dowly 09-15-07 07:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brag
Quote:

Originally Posted by Dowly
Quote:

Originally Posted by danlisa
LOL, I think Dowly has 6-8 friends over for tea.:rotfl:

To answer the threads question:

Don't really have a preference. It totally depends on where I am when I receive the contact details.

If I get details of a convoy travelling SW and I'm travelling NW, I'm not about to get 'above' the convoy and turn around.;)

No, shut up. This teas's mine, mine alone. :arrgh!:

After drinking Dowly's tea, I usually end up a bit on the port side of the convoy, requiring a right turn to get perpendicular to the targets (that tea is wicked) :rotfl: :rotfl:

So it was you!? Do you have any idea how long I tried to find it last night?! :stare:

Canovaro 09-15-07 02:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dowly
Quote:

Originally Posted by Brag
Quote:

Originally Posted by Dowly
Quote:

Originally Posted by danlisa
LOL, I think Dowly has 6-8 friends over for tea.:rotfl:

To answer the threads question:

Don't really have a preference. It totally depends on where I am when I receive the contact details.

If I get details of a convoy travelling SW and I'm travelling NW, I'm not about to get 'above' the convoy and turn around.;)

No, shut up. This teas's mine, mine alone. :arrgh!:

After drinking Dowly's tea, I usually end up a bit on the port side of the convoy, requiring a right turn to get perpendicular to the targets (that tea is wicked) :rotfl: :rotfl:

So it was you!? Do you have any idea how long I tried to find it last night?! :stare:

Okay I confess: The other cup of Dowly's tea I use for diesel oil. Ups my speed to 45 kts :up:

stew278 09-15-07 02:33 PM

I don't think I favor attacks from either side of the target. In the case of convoys it seems like about 2/3 of the time I end up attacking from the port side because that is where I am when the convoy is detected. Probably just a result of the normal convoy routes and my choice of patrol patterns. And lone merchants I usually try to set up with a shot from the stern tubes if I can.


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