[Dogfish40]

Originally Posted by Armistead

Fog and storms are the best time to attack, you don't have to see ships or get close. Just use radar or sonar and get a bearing, get within about 1000 yards and shoot down the bearing. You can use the tab to ask sonar to report closest contact and just shoot down that bearing. Once you hit the ship a few times it usually catches on fire giving you easy aiming points.

When the enemy gets radar you have to be careful, they'll chase you, but proper timing, running decks awash, using merchants to block you can run them in circles sinking away.

If you have a DG and a 40, you can take out 15 ship convoys without a problem.

Basically, that is pretty much what happened. The deck gun became the weapon of choice. However, I didn't trust the sonar as much as my eyes which I will not make that mistake again. The problem with the sonar is not direction of course but range. Until 500 yrds I couldn't make out the masts, then all of a sudden the ship was right there! By then I couldn't miss. Fortunately he wasn't armed or it wouldv'e been even more interesting. I guess we did it right by using the deck gun, but I still was sweating the confirmation that it was an enemy ship.