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View Poll Results: How do you sink your enemy convoys ?
Perpendicular (90 degree angle from the convoy) 33 39.29%
Oppertinuatly (45 degree angle from the center ships of the convoy) 6 7.14%
Kretschmer's way (sneak between the escorts and sink the biggest from a stern) 8 9.52%
Convoy scare me ! I stick to lone merchants. 4 4.76%
My way...Get between the center lines of ships, sink them from front and behind torpedoes. 33 39.29%
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Old 09-03-07, 03:33 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Hitman
If I have conducted the correct approach I should be between the lines and moving in the same direction of the convoy, albeit slowly (Let them catch me). So I can shoot two salvoes of two torpedos at a 90º and 270º Gyro Angle and hit two targets. Rear torpedo tube comes not in question because with manual targeting it is too difficult to compensate the parallax without an accurate range reading so I follow UBoat Commander's Handbook advice and don't use it in running fights
Sounds interesting. You sure have more time to take a shot this way. What do you do after you have launched the torpedoes? Dive in the same direction? Or take a turn and get out of the direction?
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