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Originally Posted by aya
I play starting at 1939 (now on Jan 1940) and here's my bit of advise....
One. Avoid engagements in shallow water! That includes the English Channel and the North Sea. There are times you can't dive below 50 metres and you risk scraping your boat on the seabed. That way, you won't get locked on by a Destroyer, ensuing a bloody surface battle or a psychological (and deadly) game of sub vs depth charges. Do it on the Atlantic where you have 100+ metres of deep water to work with.
Two. I've learned this one when I went against a convoy at night. I fired a complete salvo of torpedoes (4 against a very large merchant and 2 stern against another boat behind me). I was in the middle of them all with destroyers actively searching. As soon as I fired all of them, I dived to 100 m at flanking speed and headed the opposite direction. As expected, the escorts followed me and they started depth charging me. I ran silent, dived deeper to 160 m, altering on flanking speed and 1 kts depending on the situation. 20 kabooms later and after going into another direction, I've successfully lost them without damage.
Moral. Depth is the key.
And oh, poke your periscope when you're not moving - it creates a wake that can be seen on clear waters. I retract it when I need to correct my positioning.
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this things are very good known. but for periscope I dont use it a lot I'm basing on hydrophone so periscope for me is only to find interesting targets and after to select them when firing torpedo but also I'm using periscope at very low height that mean I dont see whole time because of waves so this helps a lot. so they ofthen never see my periscope but for engaging my targets in convoy and escape I'm using different techinq