attack convoys in surface?
 

hi all... i am reading a book of german submarines at WWII of Harald Bush and is awesome... many situations it is the same that i lived in SHIII... but i have a question...

at early WWII the german submarines attacking convoys in surface, but in SHIII, i can´t attack convoys in surface... it is suicide... all merchants have searchlights and in a moment seem mercharts tell to his escorts my posicion... in the book of harald bush the submarines attack inside the convoy... thats in SHIII is imposible...
How can i make to attacks inside convoys in surface with posibilities of survives?
the low siluettes of the submarine no work in SHIII?

sorry my bad english....in spanish i write better:yeah:

There was a thread on this subject a few days back...

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=148058

It can be done but takes a bit of luck...or modding.

It is possible as long as you keep your speed down as you approach to stop your bow wave being spotted. There are other factors that need to be taken into consideration such as the number of escorts present, is the moon up etc. See this thread http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=139413 for a screenie I posted sometime ago which shows how close you can get. That was with GWX 2.1 and the 8km atmosphere. Since GWX 3.0 and using the 16km atmosphere I have found night attacks a bit more challenging, having said that, it was later in the war during 1941 which might account for that.

Nemo

thanks... i read thats link and i try to search the path that said Hitman and i dont find sim.cfg

.. i think that sometimes in WWII the sailor goes drunk... no?:woot:

saludos.

I found it under the main install folder Ubisoft/SH3/Data/Cfg/SIM.cfg

Try that instead of the My Documents location. Also if you used the default install location it probably looks like Program Files/Ubisoft/SH3/Data/Cfg/SIM.cfg

You can open these files in notepad. Before you edit its always a good idea to back up the original somewhere else in case you need to restore.

ok thank you :salute:

After you've fired your torperdoes, don't wait around on the surface to watch the fireworks, as soon as they have left the tubes, submerge, and the search lights won't see you!:up:

but if i dont wait... how i know that i sunk the ship?.... two days ago i was in gibraltar... i fired three torpedoes and only one hit at medium cargo... i cant wait to see the final... and that merchant dont be in my DiD

If you are submerged, you can be quite a distance away and you'll still know because it's within the sensor range for your hydrophones.

I think that's true out to the range of the hydrophones, which I can't remember now but it's more than 30 kilometers, and that's several hours of traveling submerged at "kleine fahrt voraus".

Yea that's the real way to find out. The cheaters method is to save and exit a short while later and see if your tonnage total increased for the patrol.:smug: