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Stymnus · 08-15-05, 02:57 PM

Just what do you GET out of reporting a convoy? Other than alerting the destroyers to your location...

I actually had the pleasure of locating one convoy ENTIRELY on my own the other day. During one of my occasional 30m sounding dives, I heard a very faint contact at the hydrophone that even my fairly well experienced sonarman didn't find, and turned to pursue. Turns out the contact got stronger, and broader, turning into a collection of ships! Convoy, heading west-east; I would have missed them entirely as I was about 10-15 km to the south heading west.

I was pretty psyched! Ended up taking out a troop transport, two T3s and a couple of C2s -- and two of the four escorts..the lead, by surprise, and the rearmost, which I must have blasted the props off of (engine sounds and smoke but no movement). I was a lot less psyched when I discovered that the milk cow mod doesn't let you get any of the medals or promotions from my doing this...unless I'm doing something wrong? I thought maybe I'd get them at the conclusion of that patrol's next leg, where I did almost as well cruising around west of Gibraltar, finding a bevy of individual C3s in bad weather..

08-15-05, 02:57 PM	#5
Stymnus A-ganger Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Wilton, NH Posts: 72 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	A serious question. Just what do you GET out of reporting a convoy? Other than alerting the destroyers to your location... I actually had the pleasure of locating one convoy ENTIRELY on my own the other day. During one of my occasional 30m sounding dives, I heard a very faint contact at the hydrophone that even my fairly well experienced sonarman didn't find, and turned to pursue. Turns out the contact got stronger, and broader, turning into a collection of ships! Convoy, heading west-east; I would have missed them entirely as I was about 10-15 km to the south heading west. I was pretty psyched! Ended up taking out a troop transport, two T3s and a couple of C2s -- and two of the four escorts..the lead, by surprise, and the rearmost, which I must have blasted the props off of (engine sounds and smoke but no movement). I was a lot less psyched when I discovered that the milk cow mod doesn't let you get any of the medals or promotions from my doing this...unless I'm doing something wrong? I thought maybe I'd get them at the conclusion of that patrol's next leg, where I did almost as well cruising around west of Gibraltar, finding a bevy of individual C3s in bad weather..