Night attack suggestions

[Crannogman]

Originally Posted by Tshark

Hi Gang,

Looking for some suggestions here. I am in an early career mode and have found a convoy to attack. The problem I have is that during the day I have heavy fog that cuts down visual range too close to arm torpedoes. At night the fog lifts so that I can visually get an outline of the ships, but I do have heavy seas making a periscope attack almost impossible. I have tried a surface attack with TBT, but found that the TBT will not lock on a target (even though I can identify it well enough to match the identification manual). Hence, I can't get a range/speed and there are no range updates on the chart to do a three minute plot. By the time I get close enough for range/speed on target they are too close to attack. I figured I would try a sonar attack, but apparently my early year sub is only equipped with hydrophones. Every time I try to get a range I get the message "no target selected". Without a range I can't plot speed so an underwater sound attack appears out of the question.

Any suggestions on how to attack this convoy?

You could shadow it until the weather improves...

To ping, as you said, you first need to select a target. You can tell your sonarman to follow the closest contact, then tell him to get the range