Anyone else use this convoy tactic?

scalelokt · 03-13-07, 12:28 PM

I've been trying a new convoy tactic just for fun more than anything, so far it seems promising but I need to practice it more. Basically the idea is to destroy all the escorts and then the Convoy is unprotected. What I do is sit silently in the path of the convoy and then destroy the lead escort. Not hard to do if they dont know you are there. Its then that things get interesting of course, because usually 3 escorts start toward you full speed. So I've figured out a way to deal with them (using manual targeting). It's probably not realistic, I cant imagine a real u-boat captain ever taking this kind of chance, but what I do is pretty much let them know where I am on purpose and watch the TDC screen map. When they get close enough they stop zig zagging and make a straight line for you, at around 450 meters usually. When they do I fire a torpedo set to fast speed and magnetic pistol, I'd say at least 80% of the time I get a hit. Where I run into trouble is it never fails that at least one of the DD's comes at me at a 90 degree angle where I cant fire at him, and I'm forced to dive. But if I can just get lucky one of these times, and have them all come at me from the front or rear, I think I could take them all out with this method. How sweet would that be, to have the entire convoy unprotected, hell you could just do deck gun attacks and close range torpedo shots and take out the entire convoy. Definitly easier said than done though, like I said, I havent been able to pull it off yet. Just wondering, has anyone else tried this? Or any other strategy that involves killing off the escorts first??

03-13-07, 12:28 PM	#1
scalelokt Machinist's Mate Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: 400 meters to your right, calculating your speed Posts: 126 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Anyone else use this convoy tactic? I've been trying a new convoy tactic just for fun more than anything, so far it seems promising but I need to practice it more. Basically the idea is to destroy all the escorts and then the Convoy is unprotected. What I do is sit silently in the path of the convoy and then destroy the lead escort. Not hard to do if they dont know you are there. Its then that things get interesting of course, because usually 3 escorts start toward you full speed. So I've figured out a way to deal with them (using manual targeting). It's probably not realistic, I cant imagine a real u-boat captain ever taking this kind of chance, but what I do is pretty much let them know where I am on purpose and watch the TDC screen map. When they get close enough they stop zig zagging and make a straight line for you, at around 450 meters usually. When they do I fire a torpedo set to fast speed and magnetic pistol, I'd say at least 80% of the time I get a hit. Where I run into trouble is it never fails that at least one of the DD's comes at me at a 90 degree angle where I cant fire at him, and I'm forced to dive. But if I can just get lucky one of these times, and have them all come at me from the front or rear, I think I could take them all out with this method. How sweet would that be, to have the entire convoy unprotected, hell you could just do deck gun attacks and close range torpedo shots and take out the entire convoy. Definitly easier said than done though, like I said, I havent been able to pull it off yet. Just wondering, has anyone else tried this? Or any other strategy that involves killing off the escorts first??