Strategies & Tricks, (cliff notes version)
1. Get yourself a speed to distance travelled chart and how to use it. Familiarize yourself with convoy reports. Slow, mediem, fast all translate to a spcific knot. Plan your intercepts by a time table to be where you need to be, at the hour you need to be there.
2. Your soundmans partially deaf. Its best to take his seat and show him how its done. Espeically when your in a convoys reported area, but dont have a bearing on it yet.
3. When you do have a sound bearing, take your time. Take a bearing, then take another bearing 5 mins later. Start plotting When you have an idea on where he is, and where hes going, get on the firing bearing however is appropriate given the conditions at that time.
4. Check the weather. If the winds are past 7 knots, id lean on using contact detonators. If its at or below 7 knots, id go magnetic. Speaking of fish, id avoid the G7E II's until G7E III's are avialable and stick with G7A's.
5. Two fish per C2, C3, T3, or any other heavy ship, for three reasons:
a.) prematures happen, if so you still have 1 more fish going downrange if one does. If both hit its a 90% probable kill
b.) Your chances of sinking anything but a 2000 ton merchant with a single fish is VERY slim - it can happend, not very often.
c.) Its very hard to time the impact on 4 seperate targets in the same time period. YOu want your fish to hit around the same time. THey got the warning with the first impact, by the time the 4th fish gets down range theyve gotten out of the way.
6. Save your forward torpedo's for convoys for prize targets only. Expend the aft torpedos on those single merchants and coup de grace shots.
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