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Originally Posted by Thrair
I'll defer to Armistead on this. If he says waiting's a bad idea, he's probably right.
I suppose I tend to be more cautious than most. Perhaps that's a weakness of mine I need to eliminate in order to start racking up the more obscene amounts of tonnage the vets of this game can.
On a side note, I doubt this'd work well in real life. I imagine the report of your deck gun would be highly visible, even through fog.
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Fact is deckguns were seldomed used on merchant ships anyway and only read one account in a storm. Fog retains light blast fairly well, so would be easily spotted, but we certainly used torps in bad non visual weather.
The game plays right so to speak, your crew won't shoot without a visual, nor will the enemy, but in many ways we can take advantage of the AI ourselves.
It's not that waiting is a bad idea if it's your style, but the weather changes quickly. Main thing is if your gonna pace and wait for better weather, do it from distance. I've used TC in bad weather in close just to get to another ship and why ploting on the map next thing I know I'm being blasted, come back to the sub and it's blue skies surrounded by ships. The game often changes weather in seconds.
Another thing that helps is the longer ship wake mod, you can then follow the wake from further distance.