Help a new guy answer some tactics questions

Diego2301 · 01-02-13, 04:46 AM

Hello.

I was wondering if anyone knows... or has heard... or owns tutorials or the likes, for some naval tactics. I'm kind of new at this subsim thing (not gonna lie tho, I DO own the boxed version of Fast Attack, so that "kinda new" is relative), and I'm having a bit of trouble tactics wise.

I'm going through stoianm tutorials.

Here's the tip of the iceberg of my problem; I've spent one month (in-game time) at the campaign, no contacts. Now that I finally have some, I tried engageing one, but I found out that when a contact is reported as "moving away", no matter what I do I'll never catch up to him, and if I do is cause I'm surfaced and they end up spotting me and start zig zagging. SO... I decided only to care for those reported "closing", and so I did, I planned my nifty little route and ended up almost 90° of his course... THING IS, it's a merchant going fast as ******* about 25 knots and apparently making turns... IT WASN'T ME! I sneaked at slow ahead, silent running, etc. end up at about 3k meters away, I plan my shot accordingly, and my torpedoes always miss...

Now, maybe it's me, that I'm not getting close enough... or maybe it's the ship with it's crazy speed and wide turns, or maybe I should stick to PMDG's 737 and leave the navy... whatever it is, please help me, maybe I'm not too savvy at engaging so far.

Oh btw, yeah I only have those 3 kills from the tutorial on my record =( help!

I'm using TDW UI, real nav, RAOFB, Trevally's scripts and that's all you need to know =).

Thanks to anyone who takes the time to read this.

01-02-13, 04:46 AM	#1
Diego2301 Swabbie Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 10 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	Help a new guy answer some tactics questions Hello. I was wondering if anyone knows... or has heard... or owns tutorials or the likes, for some naval tactics. I'm kind of new at this subsim thing (not gonna lie tho, I DO own the boxed version of Fast Attack, so that "kinda new" is relative), and I'm having a bit of trouble tactics wise. I'm going through stoianm tutorials. Here's the tip of the iceberg of my problem; I've spent one month (in-game time) at the campaign, no contacts. Now that I finally have some, I tried engageing one, but I found out that when a contact is reported as "moving away", no matter what I do I'll never catch up to him, and if I do is cause I'm surfaced and they end up spotting me and start zig zagging. SO... I decided only to care for those reported "closing", and so I did, I planned my nifty little route and ended up almost 90° of his course... THING IS, it's a merchant going fast as ******* about 25 knots and apparently making turns... IT WASN'T ME! I sneaked at slow ahead, silent running, etc. end up at about 3k meters away, I plan my shot accordingly, and my torpedoes always miss... Now, maybe it's me, that I'm not getting close enough... or maybe it's the ship with it's crazy speed and wide turns, or maybe I should stick to PMDG's 737 and leave the navy... whatever it is, please help me, maybe I'm not too savvy at engaging so far. Oh btw, yeah I only have those 3 kills from the tutorial on my record =( help! I'm using TDW UI, real nav, RAOFB, Trevally's scripts and that's all you need to know =). Thanks to anyone who takes the time to read this.