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Originally Posted by kylania
Slow down your rate of fire really. The game will let you shoot pretty quickly, but you won't want to. Fire.. pause.. pause.. Fire! Will work better than Fire, Fire, Fire! There seems to be a lot of problems with mag triggers right now, even beyond the historical problems they had, so impact shots below the waterline are a safe bet. Try for the Engine Room (just under the stacks) for shots that'll slow a ship down.
This post shows my setup and TDC settings for a convoy attack. Basically set the TDC for one ship, and they'll all be the same settings. The only "gotcha" about the attack is if you're attacking 3-4 ships at once using steam torpedoes the first ones you shoot might be seen by the other ships and that'll trigger them to start zigzagging messing up all your shots. |
I read that post, and there is something in that procedure I find strange: Why would the range not matter? You say it "cancels out" why? Obviously if you're shooting at the 3rd rank you need to "lead" your target more than if you're shooting the 1st rank. How come that does not matter using your method?
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To evade the destroyers, once you've fired submerge to around 100m or so (if you have the room!) and head into then turn to exit behind the convoy. You'll be harder to hear if you're under all those screws and hopefully explosions.
Also your batteries should never be low.  When a plane starts it's attack run, speed up to flank and order a crash dive. As soon as you've dropped below the surface turn hard to port or starboard. As soon as you're 20m down or so, slow down to 1-3kts (Ahead 1/3 or so). That way you're under the surface, on a different course than the planes saw you on, but you're not burning your batteries by remaining at flank speed. As soon as you can't hear any more attack sounds above, raise to periscope depth, check the skies with the Obs scope, and surface if it's clear. Your batteries should recharge quickly.
While on battery power try to not go faster than the first two speeds if you can to save battery power.
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Well, my batteries are low because for quite a long time there were constantly airplanes in the air (I was sailing by an aerodrome, for one thing), so I sailed on while submerged.
As for sailing towards the back of the convoy, I'm not sure how wise that would be right now, as that would take me deeper in the Firth, likely crawling with escorts, and then I'd have to limp out for a while before I could surface.
I'll see how it goes, I am definitely using this opportunity as practice, though. Made a save game right before contact, and will probably be reloading it a few times to get the hang of things.
Itkovian