Broken convoys

[Duncan Idaho]

Originally Posted by CobraCommander

I often see this pattern when a convoy I`m shadowing changes direction (mostly north of Ireland). The chaos lasts for several minutes.

Could be bad path-plotting at course-change or something. If you want to see real chaos torp a T3 in the front of a column in the middle of turning (if it stays dead in the water the whole convoy gets messed up).

I think I had that happen last night just south of Portland in the English Channel. I launched a salvo at a T3, and it stopped, then sunk. There was another T3 followed by a C2 in the column behind the sunk T3, and the second T3 stopped dead in the water. The C2 almost hit it, and ended up to the left of the T3, facing 90 degrees from the direction the convoy was originally heading , (they formed a T). C2 then stopped right there. The rest of the convoy scattered, but the T3 that stopped and the C2 that stopped beside it both remained where they were, and never did move again. (Mostly cause after dealing with the fleeing convoy, I sunk them hehehe).

Never saw anything like this, and I regularly poach this convoy. Oddest thing of all, to me, was the reaction of the rest of the convoy. Normally, they continue on, usually zig-zagging after my first torps hit. But this time, they just scattered, going every which way, with the escorts barreling dangerously through the middle of the convoy seeking me...(but I was out at the edges, they never got close). To be honest, scattering them was really a lot of fun. It gave the appearance of total panic and chaos, which had me laughing on the edge of my seat.