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Herr Minger · 02-09-11, 07:28 AM

Now that I can use the Torpedos without constantly missing I am starting to sink ships which is satisfying. I am currently doing the Happy Times campaign and have had some success with a convoy around Rockall Bank. I scored 4 hits but only one sunk, managed to escape the destroyers as the sea was rough and proceeded to catch up and have another go. This time in light fog I sunk a destroyer and boy am I paying for it. I have spent three hours trying everything to shake them off but can't seem to do it. I have gone deep, 170m used all my decoys and tried sprinting away and then ascending to periscope depth to avoid asdic from distance. I thought the last tactic had worked as I got 600m away from them but they found me again even though I was on dead slow. I should have surfaced and sprinted away at full speed on the surface as the fog was hiding me that far away. Now I am back to cat and mouse at depth with 5 of the buggers hounding me with most of the day to go (9am) and a calm sea, but still light fog.. If this is a Hunter Killer group, and whats got me thinking that is the convoy still has escorts but these five don't seem to want to give up and rejoin, the game has its history wrong as they weren't formed in 1940.

How can I get away?

02-09-11, 07:28 AM	#1
Herr Minger Soundman Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: South Wales UK Posts: 147 Downloads: 101 Uploads: 0	Hunter killer Groups? Now that I can use the Torpedos without constantly missing I am starting to sink ships which is satisfying. I am currently doing the Happy Times campaign and have had some success with a convoy around Rockall Bank. I scored 4 hits but only one sunk, managed to escape the destroyers as the sea was rough and proceeded to catch up and have another go. This time in light fog I sunk a destroyer and boy am I paying for it. I have spent three hours trying everything to shake them off but can't seem to do it. I have gone deep, 170m used all my decoys and tried sprinting away and then ascending to periscope depth to avoid asdic from distance. I thought the last tactic had worked as I got 600m away from them but they found me again even though I was on dead slow. I should have surfaced and sprinted away at full speed on the surface as the fog was hiding me that far away. Now I am back to cat and mouse at depth with 5 of the buggers hounding me with most of the day to go (9am) and a calm sea, but still light fog.. If this is a Hunter Killer group, and whats got me thinking that is the convoy still has escorts but these five don't seem to want to give up and rejoin, the game has its history wrong as they weren't formed in 1940. How can I get away? __________________ "Blessed are the Cheesemakers". I think he means the purveyors of all dairy products.