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Originally Posted by Weiß Pinguin
Great feeling watching your first kill sink into the waves.  Be more aggressive! |
I'm trying! Had to begin a new career, as I 'enjoyed' my first destroyer encounter yesterday, which annihilated the boat during my 5th(?) patrol! Today's first new patrol went real well - 5 torpedoes, 4 kills! I really feel like I'm getting the hang of the TDC...
Couple of questions have arisen I'm afraid: can destroying cargo on board a cargo ship using (don't laugh! It's all I've got this early on!) the flak cannon, help contribute to its sinking? Am I right in guessing that cargo is the _only_ thing worth 'flakking' on a cargo ship? Flak shells (AP) don't seem capable of puncturing hull or bridge etc...
Given I don't want the first destroyer I see to end my career (again!), what can be done on encountering one? I dove to 100m, changing course 90deg just after I submerged, after it opened fire at me on surface. It kept pinging me and I wasn't sure how to respond. Silent running? Sit still? Hmmm... one of the great arts to be learned in SH3 I'm guessing!
Oh - and just how many senior seamen (50 renown) are we supposed to be allowed to purchase before the first patrol? I've discoved a "feature" in the 'crew' screen which keeps replacing a purchased senior seaman in the list of 'crewmen in base'. So I began my first patrol with 14 of the b**gers :-) . This 'feature' also permutes the list of officers, so that an officer with any given combination of quals (as long as one is watch/flak/gun, and there are either 2 or 3 [edit: or 1] quals) can be made to appear. All this is acheived by clicking between 'award' and 'barracks' on the 'crew' screen.
Hi Robert - thanks for the ego massage ;-) . Hope your career is continuing, unlike mine!