need advise, attack or not?
 

hi all, i could need a little bit of advise for my current campaign,

im in may 1941 right outside of Gibraltar and have spotted a revenge battleship whit 8 (yes 8!!) destroyer escorts, (tribals, hunters and flowers i belive)

im in perfect position for a classic T-bone attack, the front escorts have passed me and the revenge battleship will pass me at about 1,300m
normaly i would go for it, but this time im unsure,

just 1 day earlier i had a battle against a small destroyer taskforce (wich i won,) but my hull structure is around 25% after that confrontation.
i doubt i would survive much more wasserbombs.

sneaking away after that attackwill also be very hard since i cant go very deep becasue of my low hull structure.

on the other hand if i survie an attack i think i will get some very nice medals, maybe even doenitz invites me over for dinner (or if i die maybe he comes to my funeral) :)

what do you think? should i go for it and possible die as a hero or should i think about the safety of my crew and return home? :hmm:


im playing RUB 1,4 whit some of my own modifications on 80% realism

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Fire away mr. Deckard. Its a shame they wont live. But the again, who does.

I found a Carrier in '43 with 6 escorts. I attacked and sank the carrier with my last 2 torps and managed to evade for quite a while before my first ever encounter with hedgehogs :dead:
It was worth it though, I'm sure my funeral was attended by many important people ;)

shoot and run,Gibraltar a very unhealthy place to be.

Attack! Do ya wanna live forever?!

25% hull vs. 8 escorts. Thats a tough one but not for the escorts.
I'd say your survival rate is about 10%. Now if the attack is in
dark of night, it could be higher. DD's tend to use searchlights
more than sonar in darkness. They think you are on the surface,
not submerged....


JIM

I agree. :D What's the fun in everyone surviving that encounter? :roll:

attack! attack! attack!. :up:

Attack anyway!
Afterwards follows a cat-mouse game which I like more than other features of SH3!

Attack

don't forget to write 50 letters to the familys of yer crew an put em inside a watertight bag just in case they find them afterwards

there again with that lot pounding yer i doubt if they'll be enuf bit's left to fill a matchbox :lol:

run away! run away!

nah just kidding.

I think a real-life captain would feel obligated to risk boat and crew for a target like that.

:arrgh!: :arrgh!: Sink em captain, or else your u-boat will be comendered by monkeys next patrol :arrgh!: :arrgh!:

... BDU is assuming that a lack of response from the U-boat that this message eminated from, that indeed an attack was inniated and the boat has subsequently been lost!......

Any news??

Kaleun

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/5569/107jw.jpg

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/6976/116tm.jpg