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Originally Posted by Zero Niner
Wow I gotta transfer to a more modern sub asap. While on patrol I came across a small merchant. He was ahead of me doing 9 kts, 7000 yds in front. But even at flank speed I couldn't catch up with him, I was doing 9 kts too. I was recharging my batteries and that was the best speed I could muster. I broke contact and resumed patrol.
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its a completely different style of tactics you use, just assume anything in front of you is uncatchable, it usually is, even slow merchants can take forever to catch.
instead, limit attacks to targets coming towards you or sit in ambush points where targets need to come in your direction.
if you attempt to catch a target you need to get out to a range they cant detect you and surface at night to speed in front of them and then lay in wait in front of them.
think of an s-boat as an ambush predator only, its not going to be successful if you try to chase targets
once you learn to use these tactics its very fun and its the challenge that makes it so
as mentioned, my s-boat mod makes them as fragile as they were in real life and is a great mod to experience the realistic dangers of serving on an s-boat. I really would recommend you stick it out and earn your stripes on the s-boat before moving to the "fancy" fleet boat class subs that are more reliable and more heavily armored