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Originally Posted by Keelbuster
Oh - cool cool. I still think the side escort will detect you when you swing around.
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Yah thats always a concern. It depends on where hes positioned honestly. If hes further back towards the rear/side of the convoy ill use that gap, but come in at an angle from ahead of the convoy to make maximum use of the gap. Of course, this is assuming were talking about an early war night surface attack. Escorts don't see very well, so you can get away with alot.
If its a submerged attack late war, most of the time ill manage to get inside the convoy. If i don't and have to shoot from the side, ill shoot tubes 1 thruogh 4 first. Then, lets say the convoy is moving from the west to the east, and im south of the convoy shooting torpedos in a northernly direction. Ill put the boat hard to starboard so that my stern tubes will come to bear against the lead ship in the convoy, but it wont be within a good gyro angle until the middle or rear of the column goes by, but at least im "painting" the column with my rear tubes in case i see an opportunity. While i start this, since they can't see the periscope for crap, ill watch the escorts to see wheree they're going. If it looks like they're coming directly at me ill abort the attack and go deep. A few times ive pushed it, and while they were circeling aruond at 1200 meters away, i completed my turn and shot tubes 5 and 6 before diving.
They key thing here, is the AI is dumb. If the AI had any clue at all, it doesnt matter what boat your in, you shoot your fish and go deep to get ready for the Pay off. Unfortunatly your rarely made to pay for your transgressions
The worst depth charging i ever had, was the entry for the 2nd support group in biscay bay when i was using improved convoys. That rocked, i loved it. Boat was smashed to bits, and i think i would have made it had i not run into save game issues. (this was a 2 hour DC fest, boat was damaged but was survivable, and i ran out of time, so i saved thinking i would reload the game later and finish where i left off. WHen i reloaded the game the boat would spin along its long axis and i got the "uboat destroyed" message. Dunno what happened, it was damaged but fine when i saved it.
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