Hi.
I'm in the middle of my first war-time patrol in GWX, and a bit mad about the sinkings.
Had no problem with my first ship right in the coast of calais. Fed the merchant with a torp and finished it with my deck gun. My first 4700 tons, this is gonna be fun, I though.
Then a week of sailing around the brittain just to intercept a ship that ended up being from USA...
Then the bad part. 3 days tracking a convoy, it's zigzaging like mad and running 8 knots. My fuel is below 40%. In my first attack, the escorts detected me before I came close to the merchants, but I had the chance of a quick attack.
Emerged to periscope depth and found a small merchant in front of me. 600m and it was really really small. Can't remember the name. Shot one torp and quickly dive and changed course as I had the escorts in my back. Some seconds later heard the explosion and the cheers of my crew. Some time later while trying to get the escorts off my ass I saw the message "she is sinking!". But I have not received any credits for it. Still 1 sinking and 4700 tn.
Continued chasing the convoy. My second attempt was much better. Entered the convoy at an angle from the front (~45 port) and come to 2000 mts. of them. 16 ships in 4 rows and two badass escorts one front one rear. Now or never. Shot 3 torpedoes, 2 for regular merchants and one for a large merchant. Heard 2 hits. Rotated 180º to escape and used my bow torp on the large merchant again. Another hit. The escorts were dropping depth charges every minute for 2h but had no idea were I was.
Then it comes, I surface, no ships, no wreckage, no reports for sinking
What the hell! How do you approach this? Have to stay on the surface to see if they sink, or fire more torpedoes to be sure? How many torps do I need for a regular cargo? Do I need to actually see them sink to get credits for it?
It is crazy because the escorts will wipe me in a second if I don't dive to +150m instantly. Any closer to the surface and they ping me...