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cdrsubron7 · 07-17-07, 11:42 PM

I've been reading this thread I started with keen interest as I am having a heck of a time with these destroyers in the 1.3 patch. I made contact with a large convoy earlier tonight. I made a quick end round and got ahead of the convoy and then submerged. went to battlestations, rigged for silent running, and speed set at 1 knot (also went to 200 ft). My bow was pointed directly at the oncoming convoy to offer as little as small an area for detection to the oncoming convoy. Using the external camera I watched the destroyer which was out front of the convoy. This destroyer (Mutsuki class) when I first saw it was on the port side of the convoy traveling at twelve knots on the same course as the convoy. A few minutes later the destroyer turned to starboard cutting across in front of the convoy and as it cut across in front of the convoy I saw it slow done for a few hundred yds and then speed up again. The destroyer did this twice before reaching the starboard side of the convoy and turning back to run on the same course as the convoy again. The destroyer then turned to port and started cutting across in front of the convoy again. When it got halfway across it must have detected me, because I hear the destroyer start pinging and lights started flashing on the bridge warning the other ships.

At this point I went to flank speed and turned hard to port to avoid the destroyer coming at me and the depth charges he dropped. I came up to periscope depth with the door on the forward tubes open and ready to shoot. Fired three torpedoes each at two merchants and then pulled the plug and headed for 400 ft. I could hear the destroyers pinging in the distance like they had lost me for the moment and when I started to head to my plan escape route all of a sudden the sub is spinning out of control, I'm getting damage reports from all over the sub and I'm sunk.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I feel like a complete noob again. Its no fun playing this game if you get sunk every time you attack a convoy.

What am I doing wrong guys ???????

cdrsubron7

07-17-07, 11:42 PM	#39
cdrsubron7 Sink'em All Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Naperville, IL Posts: 2,150 Downloads: 305 Uploads: 1	I've been reading this thread I started with keen interest as I am having a heck of a time with these destroyers in the 1.3 patch. I made contact with a large convoy earlier tonight. I made a quick end round and got ahead of the convoy and then submerged. went to battlestations, rigged for silent running, and speed set at 1 knot (also went to 200 ft). My bow was pointed directly at the oncoming convoy to offer as little as small an area for detection to the oncoming convoy. Using the external camera I watched the destroyer which was out front of the convoy. This destroyer (Mutsuki class) when I first saw it was on the port side of the convoy traveling at twelve knots on the same course as the convoy. A few minutes later the destroyer turned to starboard cutting across in front of the convoy and as it cut across in front of the convoy I saw it slow done for a few hundred yds and then speed up again. The destroyer did this twice before reaching the starboard side of the convoy and turning back to run on the same course as the convoy again. The destroyer then turned to port and started cutting across in front of the convoy again. When it got halfway across it must have detected me, because I hear the destroyer start pinging and lights started flashing on the bridge warning the other ships. At this point I went to flank speed and turned hard to port to avoid the destroyer coming at me and the depth charges he dropped. I came up to periscope depth with the door on the forward tubes open and ready to shoot. Fired three torpedoes each at two merchants and then pulled the plug and headed for 400 ft. I could hear the destroyers pinging in the distance like they had lost me for the moment and when I started to head to my plan escape route all of a sudden the sub is spinning out of control, I'm getting damage reports from all over the sub and I'm sunk. I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I feel like a complete noob again. Its no fun playing this game if you get sunk every time you attack a convoy. What am I doing wrong guys ??????? cdrsubron7 __________________ Head Deep and Keep'em Astern" - LtCDR Samuel D Dealy SHIV Guide \| Imperial Japanese Navy \| US Submarines