Battleships and larger vessels in SHIII??

[Sailor Steve]

WELCOME ABOARD, Alexlab!

As Meduza posted the best link, there's not much more to explain. The supermods are all great, and all have harbor traffic coming and going, including pretty much historical ship movements.

Germany only had one aircraft carrier, Graf Zeppelin, and she was never completed. You can see her in Kiel harbor in 1939 with GWX. Also the battleships and cruisers are there during the correct historical time frames.

[ppk]

Welcome!

Early in the war the game sometimes spawns Revenge class BB's in the middle of convoys with two or three Flowers as escorts... That's probably the easiest way to kill a capital ship but you have to be lucky to find one. Personally I like to hunt in grids AM and AL near the Rockall Bank, it's around there that most of the Liverpool bound convoys converge. Once in a while you'll see other stuff too, for example I just bagged a pair of unescorted Fiji light cruisers in AM29. Not exactly a battleship but still bigger than the usual stuff. The guys above pretty much summed it all up. Good luck!

On the topic of task forces I have a question too : almost every patrol I get contact reports of task forces transiting within British waters from Liverpool to Scapa. I never tried to get close but there seems to be a spot where the water looks deep-ish on the map and I've been thinking about sneaking in there to take a few swipes at them... Is it worth it? It's Feb 1943 in my campaign now so I might as well save that for the next one but still, I wonder...

[Blue-Casket]

Yeah i don't find battleships a lot , only have been able to sink one !
A revenge clas which was surrounded by 8 escorts :p
I can assure u the moment 2 of my 4 torpedo's hit that vessel they all went down to hunt me

Then after heavy damage i lost trail of escorts and battleship but i knew it was heavily damaged en went on with searching, after a day i found him back completely unescorted because he couldn't keep a steady course anymore.

3 more torpedo's finished the job
Another time more in the beginning of the war i saw the hood and 2 other battleships behind it setting sail to the West that was a nice image too
But i've never seen a carrier EVER

[GreyFox]

My very first patrol it was bad weather. I was on patrol a hundred miles off Syrth of Forth in my little Type IIA when my lookout warned me about a taskforce. I dive and take a look around, 3 battleships about 5 klicks away. I tried to close, but they were travelling at over 20 knots while I could only make 13. I fired a couple of torps, but they all missed.

Haven't seen a battleship since

[Jimbuna]

Welcome aboard Alexlab

[peterloo]

Welcome, alexlab

Mmm. As others explained this required luck.
For me, I have sunk no capital ship. Encountered none neither. But I still have some success in my career.

But I must emphasis that your main role is not sink battleships but merchant shippings. Comparing successful USA and German commerce raiding by submarines, and the fruitless Japanese attempt in sinking warships, we can see the difference. (Notice that Imperial Japanese Navy operates a great submarine fleet at the start of Pacific War, with the most submarine types, some of the best ones like I-400s, and arguably the best torpedo --- the type 95, derived from the famous type 93 long lance)

Is that because USA and German has better stragetical position that results in their difference? Not really. USA has equally vulnerable supply lines from USA east coast to forward bases like Peral Harbour or Midway. But her inability to exploit this weakless equated her defeat

Remember your main duty!

[Kptlt. Siegmann]

I don't go intentionally looking for a warship to sink, I just happen to be lucky enough to run into a lot of them so far. Career 2 in my personnel file, I sunk 2 Revenge Class BBs, 1 CV, and HMS Hood, all within 8 months. I'm not going to pass up an opportunity to sink something that big if I can help it

Plenty out there though! Just have to be in the right place at the right time.