Pursuing long range in high seas and rain

on the way to my patrol grid picked up a long range contact heading away going medium speed, designated as a small convoy.

Sea was high and at night and rain and could only do 7 knots, never did see it or catch it, should i have pursued more vigourously until daylight and see if storm breaks or carry on on my way?

feel guilty i let it go now!!!

[bert8for3]

That's when you have to weigh the pros and cons, notably fuel status, distance back to base, remaining torpedoes. I just abandoned a chase in similar circumstances. At flank speed on the engines, I was only making maybe a knot better through the water than the targets. Having to maintain the necessary distance in daylight, I just wasn't going to overtake and get into attack position for a very long time. My fuel was at less than half and I've only used two torpedoes on this patrol so far, so I want to stay out on patrol. Given the distance back to base and the fuel needed to continue patrol for a decent amount of time to use my remaining torpedoes, I decided to give up the chase. BdU should understand, although some bureaucrat there will probably send me a snippy radio message.

[3Jane]

I found a large convoy last night in similar circumstances. Only five torpedos left in my VIIB, wished I had a IXB at the time. Such fun though, finding the ships in the gloom and watching for the escorts. Much more enjoyable than the conventional convoy attack.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Originally Posted by 3Jane

Nice pic I once ran into a fellow wolf the fog\weather was so thick


RDP

[trongey]

I was able to catch up with a C3 in nasty weather last night. The problem was that I couldn't see him beyond 300m so I was never able to get a good solution. I thought about taking a blind shot, but with only 2 stern eels left I decided to save them for a better situation.

Tony

[MarkShot]

Speaking of fog ... SH3/GWX has fantastic graphics. Sea/weather FX are simply awesome.

However, when I ask my WO "How's the weather?" and he reports heavy fog, it never really looks much different than clear weather. Pretty much it looks like the included screen shots above with a horizon that goes forever.

I am running with a NVidia 8800 GTX card. Is there something that I am failing to do that would with heavy fog do the following?

(1) Reduce the apparent distance to the horizon.

(2) Produce a noticeable obscuring of world features and short distances along.

(3) Generate a grayish color shift the as distance increases.

So that fog would indeed look like fog? Right now, if you didn't tell me I was in a fog bank, I would not know.

Thanks.

[Heibges]

It's really dangerous to attack a convoy in heavy fog, especially if the escorts might have radar.

I followed a convoy for 3 days once waiting for the weather to break.

Originally Posted by Mikhayl

as long as you are empty on fuel and torpedoes when you're back to home base, there's nothing to feel guilty about

thats just it - i was on my way out, all torps and most of the fuel - i just couldnt find them in the storm, hydrophone boy couldnt pick them up either - followed the contact but never saw them again, and eventually went back to original course