What is your favorite weather ro attack in?

[wamphyri]

Hey all,

This question came to me as I was attacking a convoy in 7m/s winds .. it wasn't rough enough seas to cause my magnetic's to detonate early .. and it was rough enough to keep me out of sight.

I find that in calm weather it's much easier for them to spot me than in the rougher seas. This makes sense to me but because of it I tend to prefer attacking in rougher seas. Plus it's harder for the DD's to see my torpedo's wake in the rougher seas ensuring a hit if my torpedo's set to fast speed.

What are your thoughts?

Wamphyri

[Sailor Steve]

I like a calm, dark, moonless night.

[Pumbaa]

calm clear moonless nights and to attack from the west at sunrise or from the east at sunset

[gnirtS]

I vote for calm moonless as well. Like to finish off with my deck gun to preserve torpedos.

Fog i hate, slightly misjudge intercept and you're too far away and never see them to get a shot.

[johnno74]

Originally Posted by Pumbaa

calm clear moonless nights and to attack from the west at sunrise or from the east at sunset

is the difficulty in spotting you when you are opposite the sunrise/sunset modelled?

If it is, then "wow".

One thing that I've noticed makes an amzing difference to your observibility is your profile - I wasn't paying attention the other day and I approached a bit close to a merchant before I turned parallel to him to get ahead - I thought I was ok, I was still a ways off and it was very rough. the detection meter was all green - but as soon as I turned 90 deg to him it went red, I was spotted and he started weaving

Fortunately he was an unarmed merchant, so I just headed straight for him and let him have 2 tubes @ fast speed from 400m and he didn't have time to take evasive action [BOOOM.... headshot! ]

[melnibonian]

Any kind of weather
I don't care. If I see a target I go for it no matter what. That's why I die some times I think

[Falcon666]

Gotta go with calm, moonless night... let's you sneak in real close while still on the surface.

[andy_311]

Any apart from heavy fog will do me.

[GT182]

A semi dark night, half moon, will do fine. Also a hazy day with 7 to 9m/s winds will do fine too.

Or how about this, which I was in for 2 days straight in GWX. No joke, it was Grid BE18 Oct 9th & 10th, 1940.



It's one way for the crew to shower and save the subs fresh water supply.

[codmander]

Sun setting on your 180

[HEMISENT]

I've done 5 or 6 WAW patrols now attacking convoys on the surface in dark, stormy nights, the nastier the better as the escorts have trouble spotting you. I try to set up a 90 AOB attack run cutting across the convoy lanes firing at 500m or less. Makes for some outstanding imersion, also makes for some outstanding repairs when the DD's finally catch up.

[oldpdb]

Calm sea? Moonless night? What the heck is that? Ever sense I installed GWX I always know when I'm close to a convoy because the weather turns to Baaad. Today, ma last convoy was in 15knt/sec wind. Seas high as a mountain. This was my 7th patrol in my trusty VIIC-2. A DD snuck up on me and sent all hands to the bottom. This was on the 7th of Aug 1942 off the NW coast of N. Africa.
I haven't had calm sea state since I installed GWX. Is it programed for bad weather? All the time when you find a convoy? :hmm:

[Dallass_Drake]

Just anything calm, then if I'm in the middle of the convoy and a merchant isn't cooperating with me, I can just surface and put a few deck gun rounds into it to finish it off, with a hail of shells raining down around me and into the surrounding vessels. Then dive and hide underneath something and make my escape

[gdogghenrikson]

Originally Posted by melnibonian

Any kind of weather
I don't care. If I see a target I go for it no matter what. That's why I die some times I think

same Here

[Corsair]

Depends attacking what... a couple merchants without escort or a Flower nice weather will do, heavily escorted convoy preferably night and some rough sea for a safer escape even if it makes the attack a bit tricky...