Reach down for the right temperature

Reverie · 06-14-07, 01:33 AM

My VIIC pounced on a convoy in what was literally "The Black Pit", that last spot in the North Atlantic free from land based planes April '44. And the sky was completely overcast, dark, foreboding, perfect for a stalking uboat. So much so that we bagged 52K of shipping including two escorts, and stayed shallow until a frigate River Class nearly took our conning tower. Peppered to roughly 80% hull integrity with no permanent damage, we found safety under a temperature gradient below 110 meters. Able to vacate at high speed, reload, and plan a end-around. Same era, same boat, off the continental shelf near Brest. A line of six destroyers moving south at the edge of the shelf. Targeted the last five, got the last two, scared the first two on south, the remainder wouldn't let up. 58% hull integrity, all antennas and scopes destroyed, both diesels broken as well as one e-motor. Found safety and escape under the thermocline, again at just below 110 meters.Is that the norm for this simulation ? 110 meters ? And will the regions remain the same,and thus prove mappable, or are they transitory and based on season and climate ? Anyone ?Reverie

06-14-07, 01:33 AM	#1
Reverie Planesman Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 195 Downloads: 51 Uploads: 0	Reach down for the right temperature My VIIC pounced on a convoy in what was literally "The Black Pit", that last spot in the North Atlantic free from land based planes April '44. And the sky was completely overcast, dark, foreboding, perfect for a stalking uboat. So much so that we bagged 52K of shipping including two escorts, and stayed shallow until a frigate River Class nearly took our conning tower. Peppered to roughly 80% hull integrity with no permanent damage, we found safety under a temperature gradient below 110 meters. Able to vacate at high speed, reload, and plan a end-around. Same era, same boat, off the continental shelf near Brest. A line of six destroyers moving south at the edge of the shelf. Targeted the last five, got the last two, scared the first two on south, the remainder wouldn't let up. 58% hull integrity, all antennas and scopes destroyed, both diesels broken as well as one e-motor. Found safety and escape under the thermocline, again at just below 110 meters.Is that the norm for this simulation ? 110 meters ? And will the regions remain the same,and thus prove mappable, or are they transitory and based on season and climate ? Anyone ?Reverie