[scott_c2911]

I find early in the war the best tactic is to use your deck gun as much as possible. Scenarios where this is fabourable are lone unarmed merchants. When attacking a well escorted convoy pick two of the juiciest targets and give em 2 each and if there is a target at your stern give him tube 5. Then dive at flank speed to a good depth of 100m if possible to avoid retribution for your efforts. Then run silent away from the convoy. Mark estimated position of all targets. Evade the destroyers and wait for them to go away. Surface and finish them off with the deck gun. These tactics utilise all of the submarines weapons yet saves the torpedoes. You need good weather to do it though. Another tactic to save ammo is to try to use the magnetic pistols with the torpedo set to about 1m below the keel of the target. Hit the right spot and you get kills with just 1 torpedo. Also just as a side note 1 torpedo for anything less than 2500 tons and 2 for everything bigger is a good rule to follow. This should hopefully extend your patrol. I have sunk 30000 tons today and ive still got 10 torpedos left