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Old 09-02-12, 05:49 PM   #4309
palatum
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Join Date: Apr 2012
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Just had my first "in the middle of convoy" experience. What a rush! Foul weather, heavy winds, zero visability, and managed to get inside the columns. Twisting and turning to get decent solutions. No time or need to set course, I used the rudder actively for the first time. I travelled parallell to the convoy for some time, then turned 90 degrees and fired at targets coming in sight. Then rinse and repeat. I actively used binos to search for targets, as they didnt show up on the map. I have map contacts enabled, but it didnt help much, and I didnt need them, I was so close that targets were filling up the whole FOV of the UZO. I even had manual targeted shots at ships running parallell to me, with decent luck, 2 out of 3 hits.

Eventually a corvette showed up as I was on an attack run, and I managed to fire the torp at a merchant, then squeeze just ahead of him, leaving the corvette to take a detour around him. Good fun, and around 24000 GWT and 4 red ships
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