You guys obviously never read of my exploits in my Gibraltar! post a month back:
http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopi...973&highlight=
I was using the GW mod and found two liners at the head of a convoy. The entire convoy was travelling in a straight line, with C2s, C3s, Liberties in the back with the liners' travelling in the front, about a 1000m ahead of the rest. The first liner was weaving and the rest of the convoy, including the second liner remained on a straight heading. Approaching undetected, I struck, sending two fish apiece straight for the liners. I think they both went down without further action taken against them, but I think I had to fire a fifth at the head liner to send her beneath the waves.
I was playing at 92% with only free-look enabled.
That wasn't the only time I spotted liners either, many other times within convoys in the western approaches, and other times, solo, heading up throught BE 63. It seems the top half of BE has been the most fruitful for me, personally, as well as the Gibraltar Straight[on both sides that is, being that liners can 'warp away', after reaching Gibraltar, or they may simply pass through the Straight on their way to Alexandria, but it's better not to wait until they(convoy's, liners) get through the Straight to sink them].
One such encounter was about a week ago when I was patrolling the top middle of BE(which, when looking at the map provided with GW is a heavy sea traffic area). I think I was in BE 61, wind 6m/s, clouds overcast, fog heavy, around late afternoon, maybe 1500hrs. I had my radar on scan, full 360 degress, going ahead slow with TC at about 256x. My guy picked something up through the fog bearing 345 degrees, grabbing him out of the chair, I zeroed in on the contact and it said 5000m and closing! I went to periscope depth and raised my scope to it's full extent, so as not to waste time raising it when the time came...I go to the hydrophone station and monitor the sound, my guy says the contact is approaching fast so I know it's something good and upon listening in, I can hear the whir of high rpm's, something I recognise from battleships and other liners I've heard in GW. Only picking up a single contact I'm almost certain it's a liner as the only ships which sound like that and travel alone are usually liners. I ping the contact...3000m and closing fast! I get up from the station and tell my men to get ready for something big! Realizing that he's on somewhat of a 90 degree course and I'm on a 290 degree course, backing up to face his course perpindicularly, while keeping a distance of 300m+ so the torpedos can arm(did I mention one very important fact? If I didn't move, I'm pretty sure he would've run over me, while I was at periscope depth...that's how much of a freak encounter this was) would be almost impossible to do while still being able to fire at him. Therefore, I set speed at ahead flank and right full rudder, steering the boat 0 degrees. I had a type IXC so I knew that my aft tubes would be able to slow, if not sink, this liner. Coming to 0 degrees and satisfied with my distance from him and having set up the TDC manually to fire both tubes, impact, default depth and fast as they were T1s...I was ready for this beast. It breached the fog, sure enough it was a liner, coming fast and with no time to make any speed or course observations, I was left to fire by 'eyeing it'. I judged it was coming about 15kts and was 500m away, so I took aim and fired the salvo with a two degree spread. Surpisingly, not one missed, but they both hit and each were right under the smokestacks. Being that I was using GW 1.1 and UC for GW, what would've probably been a 'critical hit' wasn't, however the ship did eventually sink 15 minutes later without further action against it. I was playing at 100% at the time. Love this game.