just completed second patrol

midnightrider1818 · 10-20-14, 12:35 AM

just completed my second patrol. got one ore carrier, a freighter and troop ship. went through the English channel on the way out and on the way in but I think I am gonna start going around England. getting to dangerous to go through there. I started my career in aug of 39 and I think it is about oct of 39. How do you sailers usually get to the atlantic. do you go through the English channel or around. I also got one torpedo boat in the English channel. he came up on me fast and did some minor damage but nothing I couldn't repair. I also noticed that after the ships went down I seen no bodies floating. I thought with the grey wolves 3.0 mod it showed bodies. I haven't ran into no convoys yet and no merchants have shot back at me. I sure would love to run into a task force and get some nice tonnage.

I was also wondering when will I be able to get get my butt to lorient and get a type ix and do all ships sail under blackout conditions once the war starts

RConch · 10-20-14, 07:26 AM

To get to France you have to wait till late summer 1940 at least.

midnightrider1818 · 10-20-14, 12:20 PM

Does anybody have a tutorial on how to use the charts in sh3. I mean if a ship is traveling at medium speed that is around 10 knots. so in sh3 I need to convert that to meters. Is that correct.

U-15 · 10-20-14, 03:17 PM

Hello Midnight Rider,

Are we talking about the two pull-down charts in top left corner.

If we are, then chart 1 tells you the distance in kilometres against knots for periods in hours ranging from 1 hour to 10 hours.
e.g. 9 knots at 4 hours = 66.67 kilometres travelled

Chart 2 tells you the distance in metres against knots for periods in minutes ranging from 1 minute to 45 minutes
e.g. 9 knots at 15 minutes = 4.167 metres multiplied by 1,000 as indicated at the top of the time bars = 4,167 metres.
On chart 2 the quick workround is to read the figure in metres as km, so 4,167 metres becomes 4.167 km

WilhelmSchulz. · 10-20-14, 03:26 PM

Well congrats! And you certentaly have more balls than I do. The Channel is normally a death trap. Lots of mines and DD`s. Normally (and historically) boats go around the top of the Orknary`s (Scapa Flow). And Merchants don't get deck guns until late 1940.

Zosimus · 10-21-14, 08:55 AM

That's a big ditto for me. I never take the Channel route. First of all, there are usually a lot of solo ships north of England that you can shoot at. Second, the Channel is too shallow and dangerous for me.

I don't convert knots to meters. I use the method at http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...light=tutorial to intercept and sink ships.

There's a four-bearing method floating around too, but I only use that in bad weather by hydrophone.

UKönig · 10-22-14, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by midnightrider1818

Does anybody have a tutorial on how to use the charts in sh3. I mean if a ship is traveling at medium speed that is around 10 knots. so in sh3 I need to convert that to meters. Is that correct.

Multiply your speed in knots by 1.4 to get Kilometers per hour.
8 knots = 11.2 km/h or about the speed of a cyclist. I've ridden golf carts that go faster than a submerged u-boat...

10-20-14, 12:35 AM	#1
midnightrider1818 Soundman Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 141 Downloads: 300 Uploads: 0	just completed second patrol just completed my second patrol. got one ore carrier, a freighter and troop ship. went through the English channel on the way out and on the way in but I think I am gonna start going around England. getting to dangerous to go through there. I started my career in aug of 39 and I think it is about oct of 39. How do you sailers usually get to the atlantic. do you go through the English channel or around. I also got one torpedo boat in the English channel. he came up on me fast and did some minor damage but nothing I couldn't repair. I also noticed that after the ships went down I seen no bodies floating. I thought with the grey wolves 3.0 mod it showed bodies. I haven't ran into no convoys yet and no merchants have shot back at me. I sure would love to run into a task force and get some nice tonnage. I was also wondering when will I be able to get get my butt to lorient and get a type ix and do all ships sail under blackout conditions once the war starts Last edited by midnightrider1818; 10-20-14 at 01:19 AM.

10-20-14, 07:26 AM	#2
RConch Captain Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: No. Virginia Posts: 619 Downloads: 518 Uploads: 0	To get to France you have to wait till late summer 1940 at least. __________________ "Noch und Noch" Prowling the Nord Atlantik with GWX 3.0.

10-20-14, 03:17 PM	#4
U-15 Soundman Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Cannock Posts: 146 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	Hello Midnight Rider, Are we talking about the two pull-down charts in top left corner. If we are, then chart 1 tells you the distance in kilometres against knots for periods in hours ranging from 1 hour to 10 hours. e.g. 9 knots at 4 hours = 66.67 kilometres travelled Chart 2 tells you the distance in metres against knots for periods in minutes ranging from 1 minute to 45 minutes e.g. 9 knots at 15 minutes = 4.167 metres multiplied by 1,000 as indicated at the top of the time bars = 4,167 metres. On chart 2 the quick workround is to read the figure in metres as km, so 4,167 metres becomes 4.167 km __________________ I hope they're still open, I'm bostin for a pint of Banks's U-15 [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

10-20-14, 03:26 PM	#5
WilhelmSchulz. The Old Man Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Virgina Beach Posts: 1,301 Downloads: 17 Uploads: 0	Well congrats! And you certentaly have more balls than I do. The Channel is normally a death trap. Lots of mines and DD`s. Normally (and historically) boats go around the top of the Orknary`s (Scapa Flow). And Merchants don't get deck guns until late 1940. __________________ "Some ships are designed to sink… others require our assistance."

10-20-14, 12:20 PM	#3
midnightrider1818 Soundman Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 141 Downloads: 300 Uploads: 0	Does anybody have a tutorial on how to use the charts in sh3. I mean if a ship is traveling at medium speed that is around 10 knots. so in sh3 I need to convert that to meters. Is that correct.

10-21-14, 08:55 AM	#6
Zosimus XO Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Chorrillos, Lima, Peru Posts: 401 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	That's a big ditto for me. I never take the Channel route. First of all, there are usually a lot of solo ships north of England that you can shoot at. Second, the Channel is too shallow and dangerous for me. I don't convert knots to meters. I use the method at http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...light=tutorial to intercept and sink ships. There's a four-bearing method floating around too, but I only use that in bad weather by hydrophone.