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jojotcb10 · 09-29-14, 03:16 PM

thanks for the reply. I actually havent played against any surface ships yet, I have just been doing sub vs sub quick missions and I am trying to play the red storm campaign but cant quite figure out how to play properly with the ship. I just cant seem to figure out where to place the buoys, what kind to use, and how to read them. I am finally understanding how to read the sonar on the sub but the buoys are a whole different thing. I cant seem to find a good tutorial on how to play with the ship. I just want to use autocrew on most of the things if possible and use the helo to deploy the buoys, read them, and drop torpedos on teh subs but I cant quite figure out how to do it. If I do a quick mission the other ship always kills the sub before I even know what happened. Also if you are using a towed array as a sub, and get shot at by a torpedo, what do you do? Pulling it in will take quite a while so do you just try to make a hard turn and dive until its in before picking up the speed big time? I so far have been making a decent amount of kills in the quick missions now on hard as a sub but the enemy subs have never shot at me for whatever reason. In the red storm campaign I played a level where I had my one and only true sub vs sub kill. It was actually a fun mission that I still havent finished but I was shallow because of a radio transmission when I had an airplane or something drop 2 torpedos on me and I dove under the layer and lost them. I then started tracking a sub that disappeared on me suddenly so I guessed he went above the layer and I was correct as I started tracking him again. I fired a shot on him and killed him for what I consider my one and only true mission kill so I felt proud of that one at least. These quick mission subs are kind of like fish in a barrel but as I am still learning its good practice I guess since I still miss a lot of shots. What is the max distance of the US torpedo? If the sub is 10 NM away and I feel like I have a good shot can I shoot from there? How many yards would I set the torpedo for? I am guessing the yardage you put in is before it starts to turn and do its snake like tracking pattern? I am SLOWLY but surely starting to understand this sub stuff and I can see it will be a blast once I really understand it. The ship I am just clueless on though after many many tries.

09-29-14, 03:16 PM	#3
jojotcb10 Swabbie Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 9 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	thanks for the reply. I actually havent played against any surface ships yet, I have just been doing sub vs sub quick missions and I am trying to play the red storm campaign but cant quite figure out how to play properly with the ship. I just cant seem to figure out where to place the buoys, what kind to use, and how to read them. I am finally understanding how to read the sonar on the sub but the buoys are a whole different thing. I cant seem to find a good tutorial on how to play with the ship. I just want to use autocrew on most of the things if possible and use the helo to deploy the buoys, read them, and drop torpedos on teh subs but I cant quite figure out how to do it. If I do a quick mission the other ship always kills the sub before I even know what happened. Also if you are using a towed array as a sub, and get shot at by a torpedo, what do you do? Pulling it in will take quite a while so do you just try to make a hard turn and dive until its in before picking up the speed big time? I so far have been making a decent amount of kills in the quick missions now on hard as a sub but the enemy subs have never shot at me for whatever reason. In the red storm campaign I played a level where I had my one and only true sub vs sub kill. It was actually a fun mission that I still havent finished but I was shallow because of a radio transmission when I had an airplane or something drop 2 torpedos on me and I dove under the layer and lost them. I then started tracking a sub that disappeared on me suddenly so I guessed he went above the layer and I was correct as I started tracking him again. I fired a shot on him and killed him for what I consider my one and only true mission kill so I felt proud of that one at least. These quick mission subs are kind of like fish in a barrel but as I am still learning its good practice I guess since I still miss a lot of shots. What is the max distance of the US torpedo? If the sub is 10 NM away and I feel like I have a good shot can I shoot from there? How many yards would I set the torpedo for? I am guessing the yardage you put in is before it starts to turn and do its snake like tracking pattern? I am SLOWLY but surely starting to understand this sub stuff and I can see it will be a blast once I really understand it. The ship I am just clueless on though after many many tries.