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Nukesub · 06-08-14, 10:10 PM

Ahoy kaleuns,

Question about weather here. I wanted to get opinions and experiences from the vets.

For reference, I am in a Type VIIB.

How do you go about dealing with it? Lately I have found it frustrating if I am stalking a vessel and the swells are quite large, enough to make it so that if I am on the surface my boat gets switched in and out of diesel because of the wildly varying depth (from the large swells)

How do you cope with this? Is it best to just not hunt in this weather? Submerge and wait it out only to surface for air? Just diverge off in a direction and hope to move out of it?

What makes it worse is that my prey often out paces my under water speed, making it much more difficult to set up my shot.

How often did weather effect real U boat captains? How do you think they dealt with it?

Thanks in advance o7

06-08-14, 10:10 PM	#1
Nukesub Torpedoman Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 116 Downloads: 56 Uploads: 0	Weather Questions Ahoy kaleuns, Question about weather here. I wanted to get opinions and experiences from the vets. For reference, I am in a Type VIIB. How do you go about dealing with it? Lately I have found it frustrating if I am stalking a vessel and the swells are quite large, enough to make it so that if I am on the surface my boat gets switched in and out of diesel because of the wildly varying depth (from the large swells) How do you cope with this? Is it best to just not hunt in this weather? Submerge and wait it out only to surface for air? Just diverge off in a direction and hope to move out of it? What makes it worse is that my prey often out paces my under water speed, making it much more difficult to set up my shot. How often did weather effect real U boat captains? How do you think they dealt with it? Thanks in advance o7