Just when I decide to try playing without cheater cams...

treblesum81 · 06-06-10, 06:10 AM

So I spent the last three hours tracking what I thought was a convoy in bad weather in the Makassar Strait in early '42. It was moving fairly slow and was pretty tightly packed, so I figured if I got in decent position, I'd be able to fire some fish in and at least hit something. After spending all that time getting into position and setting up a shot, I sat under the thermal layer until the first escorts passed, then I popped up to periscope depth to fire my fish at near point blank range. I set my torpedos to 12ft, thinking that would be a good depth to hit most freighters and let them loose. Well... the shots looked good on the sonar tails passing the range point slightly in front, but I got no hits. A few seconds later, the water lit up with all sorts of active sonar and I had to run deep and sneak away. Giving up on the whole "realism" thing, I gave a cycle through the ships in the fleet and found that there were 11 DD's and Subchasers escorting a single light cruiser and that they were running slow and slow screws because they were in some sort of crazy traffic jam (I actually saw a few of them reverse to avoid collisions). So, not only did I fail to identify what I was shooting at, but had the weather been any better, I probably would be dead...

Any tips on identifying ships in this sort of circumstance? Both so that I can avoid kicking the hornet's nest like an idiot, and so that I don't waste hours of time tracking down a useless convoy?

Thanks

06-06-10, 06:10 AM	#1
treblesum81 Frogman Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 308 Downloads: 71 Uploads: 0	Just when I decide to try playing without cheater cams... So I spent the last three hours tracking what I thought was a convoy in bad weather in the Makassar Strait in early '42. It was moving fairly slow and was pretty tightly packed, so I figured if I got in decent position, I'd be able to fire some fish in and at least hit something. After spending all that time getting into position and setting up a shot, I sat under the thermal layer until the first escorts passed, then I popped up to periscope depth to fire my fish at near point blank range. I set my torpedos to 12ft, thinking that would be a good depth to hit most freighters and let them loose. Well... the shots looked good on the sonar tails passing the range point slightly in front, but I got no hits. A few seconds later, the water lit up with all sorts of active sonar and I had to run deep and sneak away. Giving up on the whole "realism" thing, I gave a cycle through the ships in the fleet and found that there were 11 DD's and Subchasers escorting a single light cruiser and that they were running slow and slow screws because they were in some sort of crazy traffic jam (I actually saw a few of them reverse to avoid collisions). So, not only did I fail to identify what I was shooting at, but had the weather been any better, I probably would be dead... Any tips on identifying ships in this sort of circumstance? Both so that I can avoid kicking the hornet's nest like an idiot, and so that I don't waste hours of time tracking down a useless convoy? Thanks