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Dissaray · 12-20-09, 08:08 PM

I haven't goten that far into a campain just yet; seems I eather die on my first war time patrol at the start of the war or end up dead some time in '42. But I was over on the WAW bords looking for general tactics to avoid such a fate and came accross a rather blunt but seemingly effective convoy attack tactic that was biult for this kind of situation: Line up as near to perpandicular to the convoy's estamated course you can as time and escorts allow from a distance that puts you outside the escort ASDEC but inside torpido range. Next you set your TDC with apropriate speed, range and AOB and set for a full forward, or aft as the caise may be, battery shot with a spred angle that puts the eels about 500m apart at target range. Set for magnetic pistol, unless the weather is realy foul, to allow for any odd angle hits to still be sucseful. Set your depth to 20m and aim using your hydrophones. Once the lead elements of the convoy, excluding escorts unless you want to try and down one of them as well, are near the 0 mark on your TDC fire the whole spred. Make a 180 degree turn and get the hell out of there after the last eel is out of the tube. Dive deep and evaid any one who's attention your have gained.

If you are lucky some of them will strike home and you will gain a kill or criple a ship that can be finished off later at your leasure once the escorts have left if they found you. If no hits are made reload and reset for a second attack. There was some debate as to weather or not fireing from 90deg of convoy's course was best or if angling in 10 or 20, I asume they ment firing from 70 or 80 AOB, would be better as it gives a greater exposure to more coloms of the convoy. It seemed like a good tactic to me though sence I have studied it I haven't been able to locate a convoy to test it out on.

12-20-09, 08:08 PM	#3
Dissaray 中国水兵 Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 280 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	I haven't goten that far into a campain just yet; seems I eather die on my first war time patrol at the start of the war or end up dead some time in '42. But I was over on the WAW bords looking for general tactics to avoid such a fate and came accross a rather blunt but seemingly effective convoy attack tactic that was biult for this kind of situation: Line up as near to perpandicular to the convoy's estamated course you can as time and escorts allow from a distance that puts you outside the escort ASDEC but inside torpido range. Next you set your TDC with apropriate speed, range and AOB and set for a full forward, or aft as the caise may be, battery shot with a spred angle that puts the eels about 500m apart at target range. Set for magnetic pistol, unless the weather is realy foul, to allow for any odd angle hits to still be sucseful. Set your depth to 20m and aim using your hydrophones. Once the lead elements of the convoy, excluding escorts unless you want to try and down one of them as well, are near the 0 mark on your TDC fire the whole spred. Make a 180 degree turn and get the hell out of there after the last eel is out of the tube. Dive deep and evaid any one who's attention your have gained. If you are lucky some of them will strike home and you will gain a kill or criple a ship that can be finished off later at your leasure once the escorts have left if they found you. If no hits are made reload and reset for a second attack. There was some debate as to weather or not fireing from 90deg of convoy's course was best or if angling in 10 or 20, I asume they ment firing from 70 or 80 AOB, would be better as it gives a greater exposure to more coloms of the convoy. It seemed like a good tactic to me though sence I have studied it I haven't been able to locate a convoy to test it out on.