Milk cow location displacement?
 

How far from the location marked on the map can a Milk Cow be displaced?

They move around a bit, but within 25km should be good. Try and at least spot it.

Clouds overcast. Precipitation Heavy. Fog Heavy. Wind 15m/s.

No radar.

I'm looking but I don't see anything.

that makes it realistic... i read on a book that 2 u-boats spent many days looking for each other (they were on the same grid) and never found each other. Only upon returning to port they learned that the other boat was in fact on the same area at the same time.

I meant the dot. Use the compass and draw out 25 km from the dot. You don't have to spot it. Just press exit patrol whenever you think you are close enough, and if it says

Dock at: U-whatever

then you're fine

If it doesn't, try your hydrophones, though I highly doubt you will need to

Oh, I can get the Dock at U-xxx option all right. I just wanted to see the Milk Cow before I selected the option. I always pull up right beside Bessel, Corrientes, Max Albrecht and Thalia. I would prefer to do that with a Milk Cow too, and if that means a few hours of searching, I'm game.

I pulled up right on the dot at 50m/square, looked around and then tried an outwards spiral search to 10km. Lots of water. No U-460.

Nothing on hydrophones either, yet.

Well, to be realistic, you'd have to keep searching! :O:

Found it:

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/236/u460jl2.jpg

Ouch! That's pretty rough weather to do any transfers of fuel and other supplies. I'd be real nervous about the low visibility as well.:doh:

Yeah! And station keeping in that was not so easy. I just waited for it to calm down before we transferred supplies.

With all the trouble I've been having with aircraft in IX boats (4 sunk out of 8 careers started, 3 sunk in March '43), I welcome the bad weather. In the photo I'm 470 km west of Freetown - well within air coverage, but there won't be any aircraft out in this.

Ofc, I won't be able to see any surface ships before they are right on top of me, but in this weather I expect they will be using their radar, and that will give me enough warning to get under. That's exactly what happened two days before this refueling stop. I blundered into the destroyer screen of a Freetown to UK convoy but was warned by my radar detector in time to get well below. After using one Bold and sinking to 235 metres depth, up to 170 and back to 230, I was able to get away from the two escorts who dropped about 75 depth charges just north of me. Nearly ran out of compressed air recovering from the uncontrollable descent that happens at low speed at great depth.

Now we're off to Madagascar!

Use your Hydrophones......

As previously stated (I think) it's all down to how high a level of realism you want to play to.

If it's in rendering range, it's okay to press Esc.

Good now get some fuel, food and torpedoes and get out there and sink them all :up: