Torpedo dilemma

Platapus · 06-29-09, 07:01 PM

Kaluen, Remember your training!

U-Boat Commander's Handbook

Section II Paragraph 105c

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Never delude yourself by assuming that it is not the right time to attack on the instant, or to hold on the enemy with the utmost determination, because there may be reason to hope and believe that abetter target will subsequently be found elsewhere. What you have got, you have got.

Jaman · 06-29-09, 08:06 PM

Sink´em where you find´em, nothing else matter.

BasilY · 06-29-09, 10:05 PM

Sink as much as ammo's allow, go back to base for more torp.

You only have 2 years, at most three, to rack in the tonnage, before entering survival mode.

Sea Hawk · 06-30-09, 04:49 AM

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Originally Posted by BasilY

Sink as much as ammo's allow, go back to base for more torp.

You only have 2 years, at most three, to rack in the tonnage, before entering survival mode.

This is a sobering thought. Of coarse I would not have known this in real life.

I've just finished reading Iron Coffins. I dont know how any of them survived. I particularly noted the time when the only way he could get out of port was to rest on the sea bed untill the tide was travelling in the right direction to let his U-boat drift under the allied blockading ships!

I've not yet advanced beyond Dec 1939 in a career. If SH3/GWX is anything like reality then I am not surprized that no one ever survives the war in this game!

mookiemookie · 06-30-09, 07:11 AM

I let anything less than 3000 tons pass, unless I can use the deck gun.

sharkbit · 06-30-09, 08:45 AM

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Do I carry on as I am doing sinking every ship I find, or should save my torpedoes for when I reach my patrole square?

What do they say about a bird in the hand?

Sink 'em where you find them. Run out of eels and head home for more. I don't think Bdu will mind that you didn't make your patrol area.

Tonnage, tonnage, tonnage!

Ford Prefect · 06-30-09, 12:07 PM

If you're using GWX you can effectively ignore the patrol grid given as you gain nothing by going there.

Myself I usually sink what is put infront of me so long as it's worth while. Some stuff I consider too small to bother with so I just sneak by, anything else is in the danger zone.

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06-29-09, 10:05 PM	#3
BasilY Weps Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 359 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Sink as much as ammo's allow, go back to base for more torp. You only have 2 years, at most three, to rack in the tonnage, before entering survival mode.

06-30-09, 12:07 PM	#7
Ford Prefect Planesman Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire Posts: 184 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	If you're using GWX you can effectively ignore the patrol grid given as you gain nothing by going there. Myself I usually sink what is put infront of me so long as it's worth while. Some stuff I consider too small to bother with so I just sneak by, anything else is in the danger zone.