Tactics getting through the Channel

[DavyJonesFootlocker]

Man, I sound like a Bilge Rat but it's a real pain getting through all those destroyers in the narrowest part of the Channel. What tactics do you use? That slow crawl submerged seems the only option and the wait is killing me.

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by DavyJonesFootlocker

Man, I sound like a Bilge Rat but it's a real pain getting through all those destroyers in the narrowest part of the Channel. What tactics do you use? That slow crawl submerged seems the only option and the wait is killing me.

If you're using my IRAI mod you better be praying that you don't get detected when going through there.........

[Takeda Shingen]

I don't go through the English Channel. Historically, the area was rife with minefields and sub nets, not to mention flotillas of warships and tremendous air cover. I always go through The Gap, as did most of the historical boats. It is why the French bases were so very critical to the war effort.

[DavyJonesFootlocker]

OK you lost me. Where is this Gap? And DarkWraith I am using your mod.

[Takeda Shingen]

The Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom Gap (GIUK for short). Take the end-around by Scotland and Ireland into the North Atlantic.

[DavyJonesFootlocker]

Ah, I see. Thanks. At least that route is less hazardous than that hellish Channel.

[Krauter]

I too use this method. Even without the IRAI Mod I was having difficulty because of constant planes overhead and causing HK groups to come after me..

Using the Gap (North of Scapa) I get through no problem. Also, I tend to run into a lot of convoys off the West coast of Ireland so that's a bonus too

[Takeda Shingen]

That, and in the early years, there was limited air cover in those areas, leaving a 'gap' in the protection; hence the name. It is still a choke-point in access to the Atlantic (one that NATO exploited to considerable success in the Cold War), but it is much wider than the Channel, unmined away from the coast, and most importantly, deep.

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

That, and in the early years, there was limited air cover in those areas, leaving a 'gap' in the protection; hence the name. It is still a choke-point in access to the Atlantic (one that NATO exploited to considerable success in the Cold War), but it is much wider than the Channel, unmined away from the coast, and most importantly, deep.

I'll have to try this route. Before I would save my gave, disable my own IRAI mod, and then try to make it through the channel After making it through the channel I would save, reenable IRAI, and then continue on

[Krauter]

lol smarty pants

I do like making the Channel dash once in a while in 1939 though.. just to keep the Limey's on their toes

[DavyJonesFootlocker]

This is a great route. Got plane buzzed once and when I reached my patrol designation I ran into one BIG convoy. In the dark I attacked and sank 3 merchants and one destroyer. I went into the middle of the convoy and those dds thought I was on the outer screen. It was pure bliss. I'll be using this path from now on.