first convoy, and in the soupy fog.

vodkajello · 04-04-06, 11:14 PM

14 days into a patrol, and 10 days of straight fog and big waves I finally hit pay dirt!

Holy crap, tracking large convoys in dense fog is crazy!

I beleive I have 14 contacts out there. 4-5 of which are escorts.

Fog is so thick you can't see 300M in front of the boat.

This is so tense. It's a bloody good thing I do have this fog and the waves, because they'd see me for sure without it.

It's so hard to target stuff though. arg.

I guess one should go for the big tonnage first, then see how it works out.

Do you guys put 2 torps into a couple of large/medium merchants and wait for them to fall behind? Or is it more advisable to hit them till they break and then get the heck out of there fast?

Once a boat mounted an attack there was pretty much no chance for a second run at the convoy, right? The ships just move too fast for us. (Unless you manage to cripple one of them and they have to limp behind the rest.)

On my first try against this mass of ships I targetted a large merchant in the middle of the convoy. So got right in there, with in 750M and did a full spread of 4 torps on him, so he was headed to the bottom. Then a medium was directly aft, so I put my rear eel into him, but it didn't hurt him much. He took off at 12kts, and then I got harrassed by a DD and a corvette. So is there usually a chance to catch back up to a convoy once they are running? Or do you hit them fast and hard then dissapear into the sea?

Oh yeah, large merchant ships are HUGE compared to this little sub.

04-04-06, 11:14 PM	#1
vodkajello Helmsman Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Calgary, Canada Posts: 109 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	first convoy, and in the soupy fog. 14 days into a patrol, and 10 days of straight fog and big waves I finally hit pay dirt! Holy crap, tracking large convoys in dense fog is crazy! I beleive I have 14 contacts out there. 4-5 of which are escorts. Fog is so thick you can't see 300M in front of the boat. This is so tense. It's a bloody good thing I do have this fog and the waves, because they'd see me for sure without it. It's so hard to target stuff though. arg. I guess one should go for the big tonnage first, then see how it works out. Do you guys put 2 torps into a couple of large/medium merchants and wait for them to fall behind? Or is it more advisable to hit them till they break and then get the heck out of there fast? Once a boat mounted an attack there was pretty much no chance for a second run at the convoy, right? The ships just move too fast for us. (Unless you manage to cripple one of them and they have to limp behind the rest.) On my first try against this mass of ships I targetted a large merchant in the middle of the convoy. So got right in there, with in 750M and did a full spread of 4 torps on him, so he was headed to the bottom. Then a medium was directly aft, so I put my rear eel into him, but it didn't hurt him much. He took off at 12kts, and then I got harrassed by a DD and a corvette. So is there usually a chance to catch back up to a convoy once they are running? Or do you hit them fast and hard then dissapear into the sea? Oh yeah, large merchant ships are HUGE compared to this little sub.