Harbour Infiltration Tutorial

Hambone26 · 02-25-09, 01:56 PM

Before reading this or any other thread about harbor raiding, I made my first attempt last night. It took nearly all evening as I'm a very conservative game player in general (which is pretty well suited for a sub sim). In late 1940, I was ordered to patrol the waters north of Ireland and after chasing and sinking a couple cargo ships to the south, I decided to make a run into Loch Ewe. I made most of the approach at night in moderate seas, got very close to the shore, and went to periscope depth at first light. I had an average of 5m under my keel for the rest of the approach and always hugged the shore line. Before dark I sat and waited to study the patrol patterns of the defenses, never popping my periscope up to even identify which were DDs and which were just topedo boats. At dusk I started moving again and stayed well away from all the patrol boats, getting deep into the channel. Finally I put the periscope up to take a look and was almost immediately spotted by a DD. I got off an aft torpedo and to my amazement, sent it ablaze and to the bottom of the harbor. The light of it's flames illuminated a Figi CL hiding over in the shallows. I quickly put 2 into it, sinking it with no problem. Now I needed to get out.

To my surprise, no one was pursuing me. As I made my way out, I noticed that the other 3 patrol boats had all beached themselves on the banks of the channel - 1 trawler and 2 DDs. I put a torpedo in one of the DDs but was fairly amazed ease/stupidity of the AI. I raced out of there at standard speed and didn't see another ship until I was back to the north of Ireland.

What could explain this? If it's any help - I'm playing stock SHIII with the latest patches.

02-25-09, 01:56 PM	#20
Hambone26 Nub Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Washington, D.C. Posts: 2 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Before reading this or any other thread about harbor raiding, I made my first attempt last night. It took nearly all evening as I'm a very conservative game player in general (which is pretty well suited for a sub sim). In late 1940, I was ordered to patrol the waters north of Ireland and after chasing and sinking a couple cargo ships to the south, I decided to make a run into Loch Ewe. I made most of the approach at night in moderate seas, got very close to the shore, and went to periscope depth at first light. I had an average of 5m under my keel for the rest of the approach and always hugged the shore line. Before dark I sat and waited to study the patrol patterns of the defenses, never popping my periscope up to even identify which were DDs and which were just topedo boats. At dusk I started moving again and stayed well away from all the patrol boats, getting deep into the channel. Finally I put the periscope up to take a look and was almost immediately spotted by a DD. I got off an aft torpedo and to my amazement, sent it ablaze and to the bottom of the harbor. The light of it's flames illuminated a Figi CL hiding over in the shallows. I quickly put 2 into it, sinking it with no problem. Now I needed to get out. To my surprise, no one was pursuing me. As I made my way out, I noticed that the other 3 patrol boats had all beached themselves on the banks of the channel - 1 trawler and 2 DDs. I put a torpedo in one of the DDs but was fairly amazed ease/stupidity of the AI. I raced out of there at standard speed and didn't see another ship until I was back to the north of Ireland. What could explain this? If it's any help - I'm playing stock SHIII with the latest patches.