Heavy fog woes

reggie_mcfly · 12-18-05, 04:14 PM

Bought my copy of the game about a week ago and absolutely love it. Have been reading this forum religiously for even longer, and it has been extremely helpful. Thanks to anyone and everyone who has posted.

Anyway, my first post and a plea for help/advice:

I am playing on 61% realism IIRC. I have just about got the hang of manual targetting but have got map updates on for the moment - I thought I'd see if I could sink some ships without having to work too hard for the bearing/speed of my targets. Its going pretty well so far. Found my first convoy this afternoon and sent 15k of steel to the bottom of the Irish Sea with 3 torps

My problems are coming when I encounter ships in heavy fog. On my current patrol, wind is 15m/s and the fog is thick enough to walk on. I got hold of a merchant on the hydrophone and tracked him for an hour until I could make out his smoke through the fog. Although I could see him clearly, my watch crew maintained that they could see nothing. This meant that the ship did not appear on my map, and I could not even lock onto him with the UZO to judge his range manually. As such I could not begin to work out his course/speed.

I edged closer and closer, slowing down all the time to reduce the visibility of my wake. But as soon as my watch crew clocked him (and by this time I was virtually on top of him), he spotted me

What should I have done differently? How do you collect data on targets in thick fog?

I should point out that my watch crew efficiency bar was full.

12-18-05, 04:14 PM	#1
reggie_mcfly Swabbie Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 5 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Heavy fog woes Bought my copy of the game about a week ago and absolutely love it. Have been reading this forum religiously for even longer, and it has been extremely helpful. Thanks to anyone and everyone who has posted. Anyway, my first post and a plea for help/advice: I am playing on 61% realism IIRC. I have just about got the hang of manual targetting but have got map updates on for the moment - I thought I'd see if I could sink some ships without having to work too hard for the bearing/speed of my targets. Its going pretty well so far. Found my first convoy this afternoon and sent 15k of steel to the bottom of the Irish Sea with 3 torps My problems are coming when I encounter ships in heavy fog. On my current patrol, wind is 15m/s and the fog is thick enough to walk on. I got hold of a merchant on the hydrophone and tracked him for an hour until I could make out his smoke through the fog. Although I could see him clearly, my watch crew maintained that they could see nothing. This meant that the ship did not appear on my map, and I could not even lock onto him with the UZO to judge his range manually. As such I could not begin to work out his course/speed. I edged closer and closer, slowing down all the time to reduce the visibility of my wake. But as soon as my watch crew clocked him (and by this time I was virtually on top of him), he spotted me What should I have done differently? How do you collect data on targets in thick fog? I should point out that my watch crew efficiency bar was full.