Show me how to fight in the big ones

Loud_Silence · 10-24-08, 06:49 PM

Hello everybody!! I'm Loud_Silence. Im from spain, hence my poor english

I've been playing SH3&4 for some time. I ran a campaign in SH3 until 1943 somehow sneaking past the escorts and making some hits on tankers and such, but them i started to get myself surrounded by bombers just after starting the patrol, so i left it...
Some time later i got SH4, and boy, the pacific is totally different from the atlantic... here you have to fight like a destroyer, but only with a gun, four torpedoes each 10 minutes (if i have an excellent crew) and looking through a straw.
Here i've managed to sink some lone tankers and merchant ships, but there are much more warships than in the atlantic, and in a 1 vs 1 against a destroyer, i feel totally outgunned

... but a 1v1 is the best scenario... usually i find convoys with four destroyers and even a cruiser.... and the fleet battles... omg... they're just suicide missions for me.
Since SH3 i survived using stealth. I shot at the big targets, go deep and wait some hours for the escorts to leave. But i feel that, if i want to make any important progress in the pacific, ill have to start facing warships also....

Please, can you show me some kind of tactics, maneouvers or something to turn a hunting destroyer into an easy prey? Or what to do in huge battles like Midway? I once managed to sink a battleship by shooting at it from very close, using the periscope like a gunsight and turning the sub... of course then i was smashed by three destroyers and gunfire from other battleships...
Please, help for a noooooob

Thank you!!!

10-24-08, 06:49 PM	#1
Loud_Silence Planesman Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 193 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Show me how to fight in the big ones Hello everybody!! I'm Loud_Silence. Im from spain, hence my poor english I've been playing SH3&4 for some time. I ran a campaign in SH3 until 1943 somehow sneaking past the escorts and making some hits on tankers and such, but them i started to get myself surrounded by bombers just after starting the patrol, so i left it... Some time later i got SH4, and boy, the pacific is totally different from the atlantic... here you have to fight like a destroyer, but only with a gun, four torpedoes each 10 minutes (if i have an excellent crew) and looking through a straw. Here i've managed to sink some lone tankers and merchant ships, but there are much more warships than in the atlantic, and in a 1 vs 1 against a destroyer, i feel totally outgunned... but a 1v1 is the best scenario... usually i find convoys with four destroyers and even a cruiser.... and the fleet battles... omg... they're just suicide missions for me. Since SH3 i survived using stealth. I shot at the big targets, go deep and wait some hours for the escorts to leave. But i feel that, if i want to make any important progress in the pacific, ill have to start facing warships also.... Please, can you show me some kind of tactics, maneouvers or something to turn a hunting destroyer into an easy prey? Or what to do in huge battles like Midway? I once managed to sink a battleship by shooting at it from very close, using the periscope like a gunsight and turning the sub... of course then i was smashed by three destroyers and gunfire from other battleships... Please, help for a noooooob Thank you!!!