Merchants who think they are Destroyers

PukingDog · 09-20-05, 01:56 AM

The strangest thing happened on my current patrol. I am in May 1942, running 1.4b patch, no mods. I received a message that a Task Force was heading my direction, and to my suprise they were moving slow! I had not been lucky enough to see any task forces yet, the closest being 5000 meters perpendicular to one task force as they steamed away at 25 knots! Anyways, I plotted the course, got ahead and proceeded at slow speed surface in the path of the task force. I was relentlessly hounded by aircraft the whole tie, well in the middle of the Atlantic, so I figured I might be encountering a carrier. I even went into the TDC and preset some torps for the various carriers in case I was forced to do a snap shot. About 48 hours later (game time), I encountered a convoy moving from direction of task force. I reported the contact, and the message sent to BDu, instead of the usual "Convoy Sighted" said "Task Force Sighted". It was all merchants, however, there was one V&W destroyer in the convoy formation. THe usual escorts were on the fringe of the convoy. I let loose my forward torps and took out a Troop ship and T-3. Thats when it got wierd. I dove, and suddenly all the merchants were circling and even doing runs like they were setting up for a depth charge attack. With all the confusion above, it was fairly easy to sneak out from the attack zone, and let loose another volley at several ships that had come to a dead stop to avoid collisions. Anyone else see anything like this on your patrols?

09-20-05, 01:56 AM	#1
PukingDog Watch Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Yokuska, Japan Posts: 16 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Merchants who think they are Destroyers The strangest thing happened on my current patrol. I am in May 1942, running 1.4b patch, no mods. I received a message that a Task Force was heading my direction, and to my suprise they were moving slow! I had not been lucky enough to see any task forces yet, the closest being 5000 meters perpendicular to one task force as they steamed away at 25 knots! Anyways, I plotted the course, got ahead and proceeded at slow speed surface in the path of the task force. I was relentlessly hounded by aircraft the whole tie, well in the middle of the Atlantic, so I figured I might be encountering a carrier. I even went into the TDC and preset some torps for the various carriers in case I was forced to do a snap shot. About 48 hours later (game time), I encountered a convoy moving from direction of task force. I reported the contact, and the message sent to BDu, instead of the usual "Convoy Sighted" said "Task Force Sighted". It was all merchants, however, there was one V&W destroyer in the convoy formation. THe usual escorts were on the fringe of the convoy. I let loose my forward torps and took out a Troop ship and T-3. Thats when it got wierd. I dove, and suddenly all the merchants were circling and even doing runs like they were setting up for a depth charge attack. With all the confusion above, it was fairly easy to sneak out from the attack zone, and let loose another volley at several ships that had come to a dead stop to avoid collisions. Anyone else see anything like this on your patrols?