When engaging a convoy with 2 columns.....climb the ladder
Approach at a 40-45 degree angle and slightly ahead of the lead ship. Attack at 300-400 meters, then submerge, allow this target to pass over you. Come to periscope depth and attack the lead ship in the second column.
Now you can use stern tube to inflict additional damage on the first target if necessary.
Come left 35 degrees at flank speed to position off the port bow of the second ship in the first column, in a zig-zagging fashion, using bow and stern tubes.
If unescorted, I will also surface next to a tanker/freighter well below its cone of fire, and fire several HE rounds into the waterline with deck gun, then submerge and fire a shot into it from the stern tube, while setting up a shot into a ship in the next column from my bow tubes.
I have seen Fleet boats plot intricate solutions from great distance, but we do not have acoustic torpedoes onboard.
I like to watch the enemy walking back and forth across the deck as I am firing...
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Last edited by Majestik 909; 07-13-16 at 12:53 AM.
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