Surfaced Attacks

[Otto Heinzmeir]

Found this thread regarding sub tactics.

http://www.uboataces.com/tactics-surfaced.shtml

The one thing that really stood out to me, is there is a line about some targets would take more than 1 torpedo to destroy, but even one torpedo would be enough to slow the ship down and drop it out of formation. Where it could easily be finished off later.

This doesn't appear to be modeled into the game. I have had several occasions where I put a torpedo in a ship and it did not drop out of formation. I don't mean a glancing blow either, but a solid hit like between center and bow or dead center.

Recently I fired at a convoy in poor visibility (Seems I am almost always in poor visibility) I saw the ship when I fired, but by the time the torps hit (two of them) the ship was hidden in fog. I know that at least one hit because my crew cheered. After I eluded the escorts. I am trailing the convoy to find the damaged ship. It never slowed down. With it being at night and in fog there would be know way of locating the same target again.

From reading the articel it doesn't sound like the subs are targeting the engines to slow the ship but are firing salvos. It mentions firing at the ships furthest away first and then at ships closer so the torps hit about the same time. Then supposedly one hit (apparently most anywhere) would be enough for the ship to drop out of the convoy.