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Originally Posted by Tshark
Hi Gang,
Looking for some suggestions here. I am in an early career mode and have found a convoy to attack. The problem I have is that during the day I have heavy fog that cuts down visual range too close to arm torpedoes. At night the fog lifts so that I can visually get an outline of the ships, but I do have heavy seas making a periscope attack almost impossible. I have tried a surface attack with TBT, but found that the TBT will not lock on a target (even though I can identify it well enough to match the identification manual). Hence, I can't get a range/speed and there are no range updates on the chart to do a three minute plot. By the time I get close enough for range/speed on target they are too close to attack. I figured I would try a sonar attack, but apparently my early year sub is only equipped with hydrophones. Every time I try to get a range I get the message "no target selected". Without a range I can't plot speed so an underwater sound attack appears out of the question.
Any suggestions on how to attack this convoy?
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You could shadow it until the weather improves...
To ping, as you said, you first need to select a target. You can tell your sonarman to follow the closest contact, then tell him to get the range