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Originally Posted by Frederf
All stop, 380', silent running on. The DD still runs over me and finds me with TM1.5. Deep, quiet, and silent aren't enough to keep you from detection. I'm wondering if (stupidly) my broadside turned toward the convoy (in prep for a perpendicular attack) is giving me away. If I was deep, stopped, and parallel with the convoy if they wouldn't find the USS Needle in the Haystack Straights.
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Don't do this. As tempting as it might be to try and get inside a convoy.
Stand off to the side, and away from the lead escorts path. Your aspect will get you detected every time. But you also can't stay where your at, because the side guarding escort will detect you as well. Solution is to wait tell the lead escort is just about to pass you, and start to move in
Like so.... Also notice the angle. A straight 90 shot on a convoy is acutally a bad thing to do, because its near impossible to time your shots, on top of that, you'll have overlapping targets if you come in at a slight angle to the convoy. In this scenario, youve just skipped the lead escort, and the side guarding one will pass astern of you. Shoot your fish.
This isnt a hard solution for every encounter. Sometimes you'll have to get creative. if theres ALOT of escorts, you'll have to approach the convoy bows on to keep your aspect low, and then pull a hard turn when your past the escort screen and on the firing position to bring your tubes to bear. The fly in the ointment in that scenario, is you'll make alot of noise to bring your tubes to bear in time because your window of opportunity to fire is very narrow.