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Originally Posted by Rose
Why is a surface attack necessary? My method is to never let them know what hit 'em. Its just as easy to get a bearing with periscope and sonar as it is on the surface.
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In real life the periscope didn't let in enough light at night, unless there was a very bright moon. Surface attacks were almost the only way to do it at night, and a lot of captains preferred the night surface attack to any other. In medium weather there was a chance the submarine would broach, or accidentally surface, which made the periscope very difficult to use and staying surfaced easier. In bad weather, represented in the game by the 15 m/s winds, torpedoes were likely to porpoise and dive, or just go off course. Very bad weather usually meant no attack at all.