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Originally Posted by Maraz
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Originally Posted by Genghis Khan
Well,I don't see any sense of getting inside a large convoy.
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Well, biggest ships are usually in the inner columns of the convoy.
Using manual targeting, shooting at those ships is quite difficult from outside the convoy.
Maybe in late war It will get too risky to go into the convoy, and I will be compelled to hit the smaller ships in outer columns, now it's march 1940 in my career so I prefer going inside.
Only in one case (last patrol) I found a convoy with really juicy targets in the external column (some large merchants), I stayed outside the convoy while attacking this one.
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I am talking according to my personal experience.I have spoiled numerous attacks on large convoys,when I was trying to come close enough.Reasons were different-
the conning tower of my U-Boat was spotted,periscope was spotted,I was picked up on sonar by escorts and so on.
And all attacks commenced from 2000-3000 meters were very successful.There were 2 - 3 large ships always sunk without being compromised.
Convoys formations are quite different.For instance,when I sunk 3 large merchants during my last convoy interception - all of them were on the flank and in close formation,ideal for long range torpedo launches.
