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Originally Posted by plastik
Hi all!
I am a noob who is in command of a class VII (Kiel) in June 1940. These are the "happy days", I am starting to get convoys  (as opposed to lone merchants) though you can tell things are slightly tougher than before. I must say that I am playing at the easy level!! (I think it is 29% realism). I think one of the ways in which the game tries to make thing a bit harder (or rather not so boring) is in the sea conditions: you have rough seas and you cannot use the deck gun, which reduces your kills.
I am now in a patrol with awful sea conditions: rain, fog and 200m visibility. My question is how you can sink ships in these conditions: you can detects ships easy with the hydrophones but you then surface and see nothing until you actually bump into the merchant! So then... what can you do??
Any advice appreciated. Thanks! |
There are two ways to do it. One is to use Manual TDC and fire based on the Hydrophone bearing. To get the speed right you'll need to get your sonarman to follow the nearest merchant and time how long it take sot go a set number of degrees which should give you an idea of the range also if you listen for long enough. BTW there is a cheat here also if you surface wit the sonarman tracking he will continue to track the target even though you are surfaced.
The second way is a cheat an all you have to do is repeatedly hit the L key until you get a lock on a ship. If you are fast enough you should be able to fire off a torp before it fades. IIRC it will hang on for about 3 secs. (Dunno if this is configurable somewhere).
I'm not a fan of the cheat although it was useful when I was still coming to terms with steering and diving, let alone hitting anything. Have a look at the community wiki as I recall there being an article on how target by sound only.
Gute Jagd!