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Old 08-08-14, 11:15 AM   #1
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Juicy targets?

Where can I find some great hunting locations?

I have never been able to locate any Carriers or Battleships in port's

Since launch I have never sunk a capitol ship in the campaign..

in 1940 I once managed to sneak up on a huge convoy and got my sights on a cruise liner.. only too see when i got in close enough to fire it was bloody American.

I will even be happy to hunt something like the Aquitania..

So where is a great place to find these things before things get nasty for us U-Boats..
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Old 08-08-14, 03:03 PM   #2
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Loch Ewe is a convoy staging area...
Be warned, there are minefields...
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Old 08-08-14, 03:25 PM   #3
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BF17.

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Old 08-08-14, 06:13 PM   #4
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North coast of Cuba when you get your Type IX and want to pay a visit to the Americas. LOTS of fat juicy T2 and T3 tankers hauling oil. I've been there 4 or 5 times and never ran into an enemy warship in the area. A real turkey shoot. You can also sit there in the middle of the strait between Cuba and Hispaniola and listen for prop noises. It's a bottle neck that almost all of them come through on their way to Venezuela. You'll come home with more tonnage under your belt than you ever dreamed of.
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Old 08-08-14, 06:22 PM   #5
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Thanks for the replies
I was hoping to catch some Capitol Ships with the panties down..
I need a Carrier, Battleship or Aqitania Cruise Liner

I also forgot to mention I'm running GWX
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Old 08-08-14, 08:44 PM   #6
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These tips are for GWX. I can't give you dates and locations, because I don't save that sort of stuff (makes the game too easy).

Early in the war, when the English are defending against surface raiders and not us, you'd be surprised what you can find lolling around in the middle of convoys, especially (it seems to me) at the southern entrances to the channel and the Irish Sea.

There's a battleship-carrier combination that shows up about 80 clicks west of Gibraltar early in the war... so often that I am not surprised to find it, leading me to believe it is a random spawn, not a historically programmed one. That area, by the way, is generally excellent for tonnage: quite common to see two large merchants protected by just an armed trawler.

You are guaranteed a battleship at Narvik during the Norway campaign... the catch is that it is at close range, moving full speed, protected by 6 destroyers -- and your max depth is 30 meters.

You can find some nice big, though high speed, stuff toing and froing from Loch Ewe. Use your hydrophone, because by the time you spot them even in clear weather it is doubtful you can get into position unless you are just lucky.

All these are documented on the site.. search for "hunting grounds" and see if you don't turn up some old threads.

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