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Originally Posted by granite00
... has anyone else been able to routinely carry out a close-in surface attack in this game. I've never been able to get away with it as they did in WW2.
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I've done it in a storm, lots of wind, rain rain rain, choppy seas, but not real bad. Sunk me three ships, all with torps, both ends of the boat, but I used the big scope, 'cause I couldn't see a *thing* from the bridge. Still almost made me seasick... The deck gun was useless in the seas, tossing us about like crazy. The only "advantage" I had was maneuverability, being able to change heading and shoot another. However, I almost ran into a freighter, and then almost got run over by a tanker. I did get the tanker back though, with the stern tubes...
I've *never* been able to get but maybe one ship while attacking on the surface just at night, and that was without a moon, and I missed with my first two shots. Once I hit the first dude with one torpedo, the world was ablaze with flares from just about every ship in the convoy. Painted me real nice-like for the DDs and everybody elses' guns to target me. Down I went. I do not like non-standard issue holes in the pressure hull of my boat. Most times, if I try to come in on the surface, I'm spotted from like 3200 yards, or if I come up topside in the middle of 'em, it's right after I've surfaced, and then *everybody* knows where I am. I might get a couple shots off. Others are probably much better at it than me though.