Stupid C2 -- Torpedo sponges!

Nangleator · 10-20-08, 12:25 PM

My stock SHIII patrols are starting to get a little stale, despite the ratcheting tension of falling behind the allies' technology curve. (Into late '42 for the first time.)

My best patrols go like this... Head out, dive a few times to avoid planes. (Not pairs of Hurricanes anymore, but whole wings of bombers, apparently.) My best patrols are in winter, so the nights are long and the weather is good. I've come close to running out of deck gun ammo, and I rarely miss. I've run up 7 or 8 kills just with the gun before. Then the weather gets bad enough that I have to use torpedoes. (The weather never improves, once it goes bad.) A C2 comes along. I send two eels into it. Both hit, but the speed doesn't even seem to drop. I send a third right away, and it misses, or is a dud. I aim the fourth more carefully. Hit. Ship slows down. I pull away to a safe distance while reloading.

Tick tock, tick tock. Ship no sinkee. More coups de grace until it breaks in half. I typically use 5 or 6 to bring down one C2. In one case, it took 10 torpedoes. (Cargo of helium-filled ping-pong balls, maybe?) I finish what started as a stellar patrol with about 10 ships, all but one or two small.

I'm considering ignoring the C2s from now on.

10-20-08, 12:25 PM	#1
Nangleator Mate Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Billerica Posts: 58 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Stupid C2 -- Torpedo sponges! My stock SHIII patrols are starting to get a little stale, despite the ratcheting tension of falling behind the allies' technology curve. (Into late '42 for the first time.) My best patrols go like this... Head out, dive a few times to avoid planes. (Not pairs of Hurricanes anymore, but whole wings of bombers, apparently.) My best patrols are in winter, so the nights are long and the weather is good. I've come close to running out of deck gun ammo, and I rarely miss. I've run up 7 or 8 kills just with the gun before. Then the weather gets bad enough that I have to use torpedoes. (The weather never improves, once it goes bad.) A C2 comes along. I send two eels into it. Both hit, but the speed doesn't even seem to drop. I send a third right away, and it misses, or is a dud. I aim the fourth more carefully. Hit. Ship slows down. I pull away to a safe distance while reloading. Tick tock, tick tock. Ship no sinkee. More coups de grace until it breaks in half. I typically use 5 or 6 to bring down one C2. In one case, it took 10 torpedoes. (Cargo of helium-filled ping-pong balls, maybe?) I finish what started as a stellar patrol with about 10 ships, all but one or two small. I'm considering ignoring the C2s from now on.