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Originally Posted by AS

Hi all, I really need some advice please. I´m on my second patrol in Oct. 1940 in a VIIc and I tried to shadow and sneak into a convoy, now this is what happened:

Even though I was only at 32x time acceleration, the very moment I get the "ship spotted" message a corvette that I could hardly make out started firing at me! This happened to me several times. (Please note that I don´t use the 16km atmosphere mod, and please also note that the watchcrew bar is all green).

Then I tried getting near the convoy without using any acceleration. Again, after my watchcrew spotted a corvette, I didn´t even have the time to decide on diving or not or changing course, because I was immediately detected. This was especially a problem at dawn in light fog, because it seemed the destoyers just always knew where I was and I didn´t have much time to react.

So in the end it was a very frustrating experience, I was always detected, I outran the corvette or dived, then had to catch up with the convoy, all in all it took me several hours realtime and 36 hours gametime. I had no chance to even get near to a merchant (in the end I just sat down at 20m and waited for them to come, I even could sink some tonnage, and I even got away with it...

So what´s the secret? In GW 1.1a I could sneak into convoys and outmanoveur destroyers, which was both realistic and much fun. Now it seems I´m not able to spot a destroyer without being spotted myself at once. Is radar already involved??? In Oct. 1940??????

Please help, thanks in advance

AS

P.S. The reason I don´t use the 16km mod is that I get a flickering horizon sometimes and my watchcrew spots ships at 15.000km in the middle of a pitch black night, which doesn´t seem right.

Well, If u were me Ill take out the escorts first that way U will get as much kills as u can. The way I did it is while Im attackin a convoy in BF-somethang a Black Swan detected me, I dive to periscope depth than go to TDC and set my torp depth to between 3 to 4 meters than I put fast if Im usin a T1 or just slow when I usin a TII and wit mag pistol on when the Black Swan come about between 700-800 meters then I fired the torp and score a hit everytime an escorts comes it only work if the escort is bearing 0 in front of ur boat and doesnt turn but if it starts to turn than fired a second torp for a hit if the first one missed. And sry if Im not makin any sense or u dont get it.