I've ventured into Scapa 8 times using the west entrance. Mines are the only real threat unless one is careless enough to surface within visible distance of shore batteries.
My solution: set course within 95m of the south shoreline (at the base of the cliffs running east/westerly. Once near the island which has a searchlight and gun casement on its western verge, you are clear to proceed. Only one Elco naval unit patrols this area.
Once past the "narrows" and just past the 5 casement shore battery, there you will find one anchored DD and the prize: a 33,000 ton Floating Drydock to the south of the DD.
I avoid the DD's asdic by taking a long range (roughly 3km) T2 contact pistol shot set at 1m depth to avoid the submarine net positioned about 300m north of the Floating Dock. The dock's orientation is always within about 30 degrees of your eel's track line, and it is always stationary.
By the time torpedo detonation occurs, I am already headed back to the west Scapa Flow entrance at silent speed. I also take the precaution to have previously marked the plotted course before navigating the minefield so as to replacate the exact course used during the inbound leg.
Sad to annouce since the beginning of 1942 the game isn't placing the dock at this location.
I'm beginning my 11th mission, and have sunk 1.9 million tons to date.
Hopefully this will help your endeavors, and I hope to hear of your successes!
kaleun Rolfe Hass
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Originally Posted by floundericiousWA
I've encountered that in both GWX and vanilla SH3 and that ***t is HAIR RAISING!
I was snooping the west entrance to Scapa in early 1940 the next patrol after pulling a duplication of Prien's feat...when I left in late '39, the run out that west channel was wide open (aside from frantically dodging the elco boats and trying to reach open water before the shore batteries could see me).
When I came back in early '40, I was snooping and happened to see a mine as the periscope was going up...
I went to external view and I was sitting in a pocket between several mines (it gave me the "how the hell did I not hit ANY of them!?!!?  " reaction) and ended up slowly backing out then hauling butt out to clear waters.
The only way to deal with it is to avoid known minefields and trust that you'll slide between any mines you come across...if you're wrong, that'll be all she wrote in short order! |