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Originally Posted by papa_smurf
Just shows that being patient with this game can be worth it. Now all I've got to do is sink one myself  |
I admit, I am a wuz. I have adopted the great fighter ace Erich Hartmann's approach to being a Kaleun.
He knew no matter how good a pilot one can be luck will catch up to every dog fighter so he choose to be an assassin of the air, sneaking up on his opponent, unseen, blasting him before the enemy was aware he was there.
I have found battling escorts is a numbers game and the less often I play it the better chance to survive.
Your comment sums up surviving SH3 GW; patience.
4/5 times I have been killed it has been because I tried to force the issue or was impatient in some way.
I recently almost completed a second 43 career but on the last mission I got cute (did not have the renown to buy a XXIII) so spent my renown on homing fish and became a Schlachtboot. Very last mission, all I had to do was survive but being a big shot I was over confident and went against all my rules and of course, died a fool.
My simple rules? I do not fight, I run.
I am a sniper not a brawler
Convoy attacks, I attack with 5 fish on silent no reloads. I get what those give and I get deep and in an odd direction before the escorts get in and find me. Once they do it is hard to shake them and one lucky string on DC's and the party is over.
I have one main goal; get back to base alive.
My second goal is to safeguard the crew while doing my best to sink as much as possible but as if my crew were really alive and their families depended on me to get them home safe.
My last career before this one I ignored radar detection reports and was run over by a destroyer in a rain storm in the spring of 43, starting from 9/39.
How stupid.
Your are right, patience.
Assassinate the English, do not joust.
You can win 20 times but if you lose once it is over.
Wulfmann