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Originally Posted by aaronblood
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Originally Posted by Heibges
I agree with Kapt and Pen. The only way I have found to get "realistic" results is use SOP from the Uboat Commanders Handbook.
Basically it is three rules.
1. Only use hydrophones at dawn, dusk, and in terrible visibility.
2. Torpedo Allocation. Fan shooting at all targets.
3. Maximum range for deckgun is 1100m.
After studying the Uboat Commanders Handbook, and other sources, I developed these SOP's and I get careers that could straight off from uboat.net.
1. 1/3 of my patrols I see no targets.
2. 7 ships is about the most you will ever sink in a Type VII on one patrol.
3. A career of 13 Patrols will yield about 150K tons on average.
Certainly I still make the Most Successful list, but am much more in line with historical averages.
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I'd say a typical successful patrol for me would be maybe 3-5 ships sunk. I don't always shoot a fan of 3, but almost always at least 2, and then maybe a 3rd to finish if needed. The intent is to score at least 2 hits on the initial attack. This seems to be in agreement with what I've read in the handbook about expenditure of torps.
Agreed 7 ships in a single patrol would be an unusually good patrol.
I try to use the deckgun as outlined in section 5. ...which is basically not much. Attack with deckgun only if there's little to no threat of retribution.
I seldomly make initial contact with the hydro, but sometimes it happens, like maybe once every 3 or 4 patrols. But I don't think I've ever played a patrol where I haven't sunk a ship... unless badly damaged in some way that is.
I guess I patrol the assigned area at slow speed on surface for the 24 horus and if I don't find anything I head for a favorite traffic area. I'd say most of my contacts are via BdU radio contact reports though.
When you say that for 1/3 of your patrols you see no targets, do you chase after the BdU radio contacts or just ignore them. I could see myself not finding targets if I didn't chase after the reported contacts. |
I chase after them, but I only rse my hydrophones to locate them in poor visibility.
But on a daily basis, until Allied aircraft dicatate otherwise, I would do a safety dive at dawn and dusk, but otherwise spend all my time on the surface. Except of course in heavy fog, in which I always try to stay submerged, and never initiate an attack.
What does Map Updates refer to? The large boxes and diamonds on the Navigation Map? I wish the game gave you a 6 digit grid AN5654, for contacts instead of a 4 digit. Then you really could plot the contact reports yourself.
There are some patrols where no targets appear close enough for me to reach, or I just can't locate them. Very rarely do I "stumble" upon a convoy so to speak.
I remember one patrol where I hadn't seen anything, and then I found 5 small merchants, each travelling solo, over about 2 grid squares, in calm seas, and I sank all 5 with the deckgun. I only sank 10k, but it was probably my favorite patrol I ever went on.
An average 3 patrols for me looks like.
Patrol 1 = 0 Sunk
Patrol 2= 1 Sunk
Patrol 3= 5 Sunk
Patrol 4= 0 Sunk
Patrol 5= 2 Sunk
Patrol 6 = 4 Sunk
Patrol 7=0 Sunk
Patrol 8=1 Sunk
Patrol 9=7 Sunk