Black death suprise.
 

Was on patrol heading out to AM41. So far I have bagged a British freighter and a british tug. now the storm kicks up. The night becomes black with rain and clouds. I get a radio report from BDU that a convoy is just 30km north of my position! slowly I feel them out. Hydrophone says we should be comming right into their midst. I scan the horizon but in this worst of storms visibility is measured in feet. There was almost no light and I have never seen the sky so black. Just then a destroyer 50ft on my starboard side light me up. How did I not see him!? Too late to react I order a crash dive.............I never made it. U-47 lost...all hands lost.
WOW this sim is addictive

Should have turn on your navigation lights. :roll:

Poor U-47 - probably gotten sunk more times that any other boat ever.

Been there done that many times. My crew now calls me the ghost because I can't be killed thanks to new careers.

Tapfere Männer im Krieg verloren gehen jeden Tag. Sie werden sich, was 30.000 ihrer comrads.

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The only possible solution in such an encounter is to close skin to skin with the destroyer and dive.

I had a similar encounter outside Brest on the day German forces entered the port. Managed to submerge (shallow water) got badly banged up in a previously damaged boat, but somehow survived.

Convoy in extremely bad weather with no visability, I will usually try and follow it to see if the weather breaks.

Apparently your sonarman was right about being in the midst of the convoy.;)

I was in weather like that one night, and barely saw a destroyer appear then disappear less than 100m to starboard. He never knew I was there. On the other hand, I never saw the ships he was with either.:down:

Bad weather can often be your friend.....and quite often your enemy http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...ies/pirate.gif

True words.


Attacking a convoy in a weather like that is worthless.
I suggest you to keep distance on it, but keep the contact on it. So when the storm calms down, it's time to attack.

Works perfectly with me, but it requires much patience.