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Originally Posted by rikeloldaboss
Basically, I decided to brave the channel. Less than a quarter of the way through, I find a cargo ship. Somehow, I lose 90% of my deck guns ammo, and finally manage to sink it.
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- How can you use 90% of deck gun ammo to sink one ship??? What was her tonnage? Large ships can take many deckgun hits, so it is better to try to sink them with torpedoe(s) first and use flooding and deck gun for finishing them.
- You need to aim below the waterline to sink the ship with flooding = just make enough holes below waterline and flooding will do the rest.
Aiming above waterline is kind of waste of ammo (= no flooding)
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Originally Posted by rikeloldaboss
Halfway across, I have to engage 4 patrol ships back to back with nothing but my flak.
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bad idea, patrol boats are small targets and they will always damage you when you try to sink them on surface. Hard to hit with deckgun and they take many hits from flak to sink them.
Even ASW trawlers are better targets if you can surprise them from behind and destroy their weapons first. Then they are easy target for deckgun.
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Originally Posted by rikeloldaboss
Finally, I get to my objective. After i patrol for 24 hours, I decide to dock at a Spanish port for fun. When I do, I finish the patrol only to find I was at 17 hull integrity, and I had only gained 170 renown. Did I have to pay for the deck gun ammunition with
My own salary???
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- 17 hull integrity - yeah, that happens when you try surface duel with patrol ships -> bad idea, damage is not worth it
- only gained 170 renown - what % realism do you have set?
This can happen with low realism settings (= low renown). Plus small patrol ships have very small renown reward (torpedo boat has just 20 renown for me - and that is value for 100% realism), so it is not worth to fight them. Just dive and they will move away after some time.
The realism settings also affect the renown value. Here is a formula to calculate renown value regarding to realism:
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renown value = base ship renown value * ( (0.75 * realism %) + 0.25 )