Dealing With GWX Aircraft

[GoldenRivet]

Been reading these forums for some time now. finally decided i would join up and create my first post.

If your playing the GWX mod one thing you will notice particularly late in the war is that air patrols are not only frequent, and annoying, but they are lethal.

it always seems that no sooner can you get your batteries charged or nearly so and there is an aircraft coming down on you or your radio man is detecting radar!

One thing i did to counter the threat of aircraft - and this may be old news - but i equipped the boat with the Flack Boat watch tower with 2 four barrels and the twin AA gun. Instruct the gun crews to hold their fire. Watch the inbound airplane approach you. The second he starts his dive to drop bombs on you, tell your gun crews to fire at will. The result is almost always lethal for the incoming aircraft. Usually they plane will erupt into flames, pass over your boat, and crash into the sea before having the chance to drop any bombs.

The only time i dont try this little tactic is when i am being engaged by multiple aircraft, or of course when the seas are too rough to permit manning the AA guns.