Engaging convoys and escorts in SH4

Ghayth203 · 09-13-18, 10:29 PM

Guys I've been playing Silent Hunter III, and finished its career early this year, and I returned to sub sims a week ago with Silent Hunter IV: Wolves of the Pacific about a week ago, when I used to play Silent Hunter III, I wouldn't fear corvettes or armed trawler' escorts... Engage them with deck gun, lure the destroyer to go a straight line towards my stern tube, fish in the water then spray and sink towards the see bed, then I keep shadowing the convoy untill they stopped zigzagging and evading, then I use my torps, send a salvo, score multiple hits & kills, then home and tea...

But when I play SH4, the only escorts I meet are destroyers packing good punches with their single or twin turrets across all their deck, so it would be suicidal to meet them with a stern mounted 4"/50 cal... So I get it, you should never shoot a shell towards a Fubuki or a Minekaze class destroyer, but in order to sink a ship in a jap convoy or a task force, how would you get close enough to fire? I mean escorts are all around, and there is no gap or loophole to exploit it, and early war torps like Mk. 10 and Mk. 14 don't do you any favor..?

How to engage convoys and escorts in SH4?

09-13-18, 10:29 PM	#1
Ghayth203 Swabbie Join Date: Sep 2016 Location: Tunisia Posts: 13 Downloads: 17 Uploads: 0	Engaging convoys and escorts in SH4 Guys I've been playing Silent Hunter III, and finished its career early this year, and I returned to sub sims a week ago with Silent Hunter IV: Wolves of the Pacific about a week ago, when I used to play Silent Hunter III, I wouldn't fear corvettes or armed trawler' escorts... Engage them with deck gun, lure the destroyer to go a straight line towards my stern tube, fish in the water then spray and sink towards the see bed, then I keep shadowing the convoy untill they stopped zigzagging and evading, then I use my torps, send a salvo, score multiple hits & kills, then home and tea... But when I play SH4, the only escorts I meet are destroyers packing good punches with their single or twin turrets across all their deck, so it would be suicidal to meet them with a stern mounted 4"/50 cal... So I get it, you should never shoot a shell towards a Fubuki or a Minekaze class destroyer, but in order to sink a ship in a jap convoy or a task force, how would you get close enough to fire? I mean escorts are all around, and there is no gap or loophole to exploit it, and early war torps like Mk. 10 and Mk. 14 don't do you any favor..? How to engage convoys and escorts in SH4?