Best option: DIVE!
If you have to stay at the surface (maybe because you are loading external torpedos), there are some aspects to consider:
- try to show your broadside to the incoming airplane/s. It's easy for them to aim the correct direction, but it's harder to chose the right drop point. Often they drop short or the bombs fly over your head. It's way easier to hit your boat approaching from the back or the front. Remember your gunners refuse to shoot over your tower.
- change your speed. I prefer to go at half speed until they start to dive and shoot - then I speed up to flank.
- change your course slightly into their direction (~ 20°) when they start their attack. It's harder to keep aim on you.
- don't waste ammunition by shooting over far distances. The gunners accuracy is quite bad (GWX 2.0), but you may hit a score at short distances.
- shoot at incoming airplanes for best results. My boys never hit the leaving bees.
- try to man the guns in the last moment to keep your crew more or less safely.
- have a repaircrew ready - you'll need them.
Last week I managed to down two Mosquitos southwest of Ireland. It's summer of '43 and they pinned some holes into our trusty VIIB/2 but we gladly made it.
This career we lost already three AA gunners and three men of the torpedo reloading team. (I man the deckgun for reloading externals and stay surfaced the last 20 minutes)
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