[The Fishlord]

Originally Posted by jgbishop

1. When you encounter a convoy, do you do your best to sink every ship? Or do you sink the larger boats and get away?

Depends on the conditions. If it's raining and foggy, I go in on the surface at the TDT with the guns manned. At such short range, it's hard to miss.

At night, I'll sneak past the destroyers (sometimes on the surface if I can figure out their plan) then torpedo as many of the central ships as I can. As the destroyers head inward I head to the rim of the convoy again and fire again. Repeat as many times as possible.

During the day, I often approach one of the destroyers on the surface, and just let him see me enough so that he moves towards me. I think if the escorts get a certain distance away, the convoy stops moving; so while only one destroyer tries to work me over I go to the center and torpedo the biggest ships I can find. If it's night, I sometimes risk it by popping up in the center with the deck gun, or if it's still day, I just submerge at silent running and move as quickly as I can away from the destroyers.

2. Once a convoy is alerted to your presence, they start zig-zagging all over the place, and they usually increase their speed a little. Let's assume that you missed one of your targets, and the convoy knows you're out there somewhere. How do you get back into position to try and hit the convoy again? It's nearly impossible to overtake them underwater (without your battery running out), and if you surface, you'll get shot at.

My convoys tend to just stop while the escorts head for me...Hmm. Well, what I would do is to stay just out of visual range, or barely inside, and on the surface. When they slow down to cool their heels attack them again.

If you're lucky you can avoid this situation altogether by getting well ahead of the convoy you're attacking. Thus you may get a salvo from the bow and stern tubes before he gets to you. Then just surface and use the deck gun at close range; your silouhette is too small for many of the merchant guns to hit well. And any escorts will also have trouble shooting past their own ships, to the center of the convoy.

Attacking the destroyers with the deck gun always works too; seems to slow them down/piss them off/sink them.

3. Let's assume that I'm in prime position for an approaching convoy. I'm facing them (at a 90 degree angle) and they pass by me. Obviously, I want to take out as many of these ships as possible. I launch two or three torpedoes at one ship, then launch a torpedo or two at a few of the smaller ships. When the first torpedoes hit the first ship, the rest of the convoy will begin taking evasive maneuvers, increasing the odds that the torpedoes you fired at smaller boats will miss. How do folks here handle firing at multiple targets in a convoy? Or do you single out one ship and go for that?

I try to avoid this situation altogether; I've discovered that in this manner it's rare to sink more than one ship. Rather, try to get so that you are looking down a line of enemy ships (Preferably, from the bow, but diagonal works well too, definetly not stern though). Then increase speed and decrease the distance so that all the ship's targetting "arrow" is green. Fire all your torpedoes at the ship closest to you in that line. With luck, if any of those miss, the ones behind it stumble right into them.

Hoped these helped!

P.S. I'm playing on "normal" difficulty level, so that may be below your skill level, I don't know