Hi all,
I'm trying to wrap my head around this thing. I love simming. Mostly, I play flight sims. But I've always had a soft spot in my heart for sub sims.
So, I did the training and I started a campaign on default realism; maybe 32%. My first patrol was with the 1st somethingoranother. Went terrible. I was assigned to patrol North-East England; Scappa Flow maybe. I started at the beginning. I was told to hit war-supporting convoys and warships.
Here's where the trouble started. It takes forever to get anywhere. I was thinking I could just crank it up to 1024 and sail to my area. That doesn't work.
Once I'm in the area, I start zipping around in a kinda zig-zaggy search pattern thingie. Oh was it ever sucky. All I ever found were Warships and Armed Trawlers. I took a few shots from about 1000 meters on a Trawler doing about 14kts. Total miss. Then he turns towards me and starts acting all big. So I down-periscope and tell my driver to take us down...apparently I'm suposed to know that ordering 25 meters in only 15 meters of water is a bad thing.
Anyway, I died a bad death.
On my second patrol, I ran into the shore less than 100km from base. Maybe my GPS skills need work. Or maybe that dammned driver is just out to get me.
So, here goes:
I'm using 1.4b along with IUB 1.02.
How do you get to your patrol area?
How do you get credit for patrolling?
Where are the ships? Is there a lane map or something, or should I just tinker around till we see/hear something?
When on patrol, what speed do you go?
When on patrol, what compression do you use?
Do you think it's better to go slow and underwater at night and listen rather than trying to see anything?
That's all I can think of for now. Thanks...