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Originally Posted by AndyW
Bad weather becomes extremely interesting if you play with manual navigation. At my last patrol I was caught in a storm for 10 days and couldn't take a position finding. So I had to sail to my assigned grid by using dead reckoning only.
At the end of the storm, when sun was seen for the first time after 10 days, I took my position. I was only 44 km forward to the position acc. to my dead reckoning, that's pretty good I think.
I like manual navigation during bad weather, it adds a lot of thrill to the game (find your grid and find home). But dead reckoning becomes pretty complex if you are operating against a contact etc. you definately need a logbook and a pocket calculator.
Cheers,
AndyW
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Agreed...
One of my best game times was to find a friendly port at night in thick fog and heavy winds after 3 or 4 days of "estimated plotting". I finished with sound contacts from the "Flottenbegleiter" to guide me until I could see the harbour lights through the fog. A great moment...