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pythos · 07-02-09, 03:26 PM

5km=5000meters. Where is the confusion?

As for using my god like powers, I did ask in my OP which parameter controlled the AI's night vision.

For the guy that asked about radar, they do not have radar yet. it is early 1941, and the ship in question was a lone merchant, not an escort. Read the original post please.

Do not get me wrong. I love this game, otherwise it would be off my computer with the bugs it has.

I want to play historically accurate. It is bad enough it does not take into account the closer the boat is to the bottom of the ocean the less accurate the sonar, or the fact you can't bottom out without taking loads of damage, but not being able to carry out the attacks that made the U-boats notorious is pretty bad. My complaints are based off what I have read in novels written by actual war time commanders. U-boats up until the implementation of the radar sets on all escorts did night surface attacks, and did them within 500meters, hull down (awash). This is noted in Donitz's book along with a book on British submarines I have read. When I try to do this sort of attack, every time I am detected. This makes me have to resort to a totally un realistic night PERISCOPE attack, which was not possible unless there was a full moon and even then the chances were low for success, hence the idea of the surface night attack.

Another thing. I am playing the U-boats right now. As I am sure you know the early type VII, which I am currently running had very minimal towers, and sat much lower in the water, than the American fleet boats. American fleet boats were also painted all black, which is surprisingly not good for night work. The fleet boats were also MUCH bigger and sat higher in the water (from the top of the deck to the waterline of the bow, was higher than the entire bow of a u-boat.) than the relatively smaller type VII. That is why American boats were not so good at night surface attacks.

To those that gave the parameters to adjust, thank you. You may think me a complainer, but you helped, which is more than some here.

07-02-09, 03:26 PM	#23
pythos Grey Wolf Join Date: May 2005 Location: Somewhere over there Posts: 834 Downloads: 46 Uploads: 0	5km=5000meters. Where is the confusion? As for using my god like powers, I did ask in my OP which parameter controlled the AI's night vision. For the guy that asked about radar, they do not have radar yet. it is early 1941, and the ship in question was a lone merchant, not an escort. Read the original post please. Do not get me wrong. I love this game, otherwise it would be off my computer with the bugs it has. I want to play historically accurate. It is bad enough it does not take into account the closer the boat is to the bottom of the ocean the less accurate the sonar, or the fact you can't bottom out without taking loads of damage, but not being able to carry out the attacks that made the U-boats notorious is pretty bad. My complaints are based off what I have read in novels written by actual war time commanders. U-boats up until the implementation of the radar sets on all escorts did night surface attacks, and did them within 500meters, hull down (awash). This is noted in Donitz's book along with a book on British submarines I have read. When I try to do this sort of attack, every time I am detected. This makes me have to resort to a totally un realistic night PERISCOPE attack, which was not possible unless there was a full moon and even then the chances were low for success, hence the idea of the surface night attack. Another thing. I am playing the U-boats right now. As I am sure you know the early type VII, which I am currently running had very minimal towers, and sat much lower in the water, than the American fleet boats. American fleet boats were also painted all black, which is surprisingly not good for night work. The fleet boats were also MUCH bigger and sat higher in the water (from the top of the deck to the waterline of the bow, was higher than the entire bow of a u-boat.) than the relatively smaller type VII. That is why American boats were not so good at night surface attacks. To those that gave the parameters to adjust, thank you. You may think me a complainer, but you helped, which is more than some here. Last edited by pythos; 07-02-09 at 03:42 PM.