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Originally Posted by Egan
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Originally Posted by WalterNovak
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Originally Posted by Egan
use my own search patterns
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could you elaborate a bit on your, and/or usual U-boat search patterns?
personally, I tend to either zig-zag a ~50 km wide "search corridor" along a suspected merchant/convoy route, or sit a day or two submerged at an obvious chocke point, listenting on the hydrophones |
For a start I tend to patrol my ordered grid sqaure for at least ten days instead of for 24 hours. This is a bit more realistic as the boats were not on any kind of 'go and hunt where you please' spree.
From my starting grid I will open out to one box away from it in each direction and then 2. This takes about a three weeks to a month. If after this time I still have not had a kill I will ask BdU for orders (roll a dice, odd number, comtinue patrol where I am. evens, i can go else where.) When I reach a new patrol zone i do the same thing again. If I have to roll the dice again I figure in how much fuel I have left and I maybe go home instead. My patrols tend to last from 6 to 10 weeks.
Should I recieve a radio report about a convoy I will try and engage it only if it is close enough. If not I will continue where I was. |
Great system, wanted to use it ma last patrol but the second convoy I ran across at night (using improved convoys) led to my gettting some damage on the surface and edning my patrol. But I did sneak pretty darn close to the enemy.
