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Originally Posted by mheil
Sunk a ship in a bad storm where I had no visability 'cept real close (+/- 300m) I was able to sink him by following him submerged for a while and getting a real good plot of his position, speed and course. Then a sped ahead of him got into a good attack postion based on the above and made sure I would be about 600m from him. I waited submerged at 0 knots (sorry about that for you hardcore types out there) and used my hydrophone operator to tell me the bearing to target. Sighted this bearing in the periscope and BOOM! I fired 2 toprs and 1 hit. I thought the hydrophone operator's reported bearing would be a bit too astern as he is hearing noises from the prop, but based on where the torps went it looks like the bearing he game me was mid ships. It was a challenge doing it this way. The hard part was actually finding the ship in the first place!
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A really rough sea make it almost impossible to sight in a target, you see it and get ready to fire then water flows over the periscope and it's gone, can't get a shot off. It's almost impossible to sink anything cause you keep loosing the target and as there are several targets that are the same, ie: T3 Tankers, you don't know which one you fired the torpedo at and got an impact and the ships are scattering, so you don't know which T3 it was that you hit so that you can hit it again. AAAAGH!!!