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karamazovnew · 08-03-09, 10:36 AM

I'm preety sure that any convoy would be travelling at about 60% of the maximum speed of it's slowest ship. At anything below 15 knots, you still have enough time to maneuver and place yourelf in a good spot ahead of the convoy. It will take you a few hours, but that's how it was back then, sometimes it took days to perform a good attack. THe longest I've waited was almost 2 days for the weather to clear while keeping in contact with the convoy. Once I've had an Enemy Task Force going at almost less than 1 knot. But on the same patrol, I encountered a small convoy of 1 Huge Liner and 2 destroyers going at 20 knots, impossible of course to catch. But to be honest, the slow convoy seemed much more unrealistic.

08-03-09, 10:36 AM	#5
karamazovnew The Old Man Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Bucharest, Romania Posts: 1,403 Downloads: 151 Uploads: 0	I'm preety sure that any convoy would be travelling at about 60% of the maximum speed of it's slowest ship. At anything below 15 knots, you still have enough time to maneuver and place yourelf in a good spot ahead of the convoy. It will take you a few hours, but that's how it was back then, sometimes it took days to perform a good attack. THe longest I've waited was almost 2 days for the weather to clear while keeping in contact with the convoy. Once I've had an Enemy Task Force going at almost less than 1 knot. But on the same patrol, I encountered a small convoy of 1 Huge Liner and 2 destroyers going at 20 knots, impossible of course to catch. But to be honest, the slow convoy seemed much more unrealistic.