Capital ships in convoys???

[Alpha Von Burg]

I was using the warship mod (WSM 3.0) when I engaged the convoy with Rodney in it. Rodney was at 6 knots and as I closed in with my battleship, the escorts, excluding Rodney turned to engage me. After destroying all it's escorts I went for the rest of the convoy leaving Rodney. After sinking every in the convoy I engaged Rodney, and for some reason Rodney didn't enter any manner of alert, it was still going at 6 knots, I was literally circling it.

I engaged it for nearly 3 hours, in the end I had to pull out due to low ammunition and damage.

[papa_smurf]

I nearly bagged HMS Renown last night, but was chased off

[HW3]

Go here and listen to Jurgen Oesten discribe his encounter with a convoy from Freetown with HMS Malaya guarding it.
http://silenthunteriii.com/uk/videos.php

[K-61]

Thanks, HW3!

[K-61]

Just now finished watching the video. Osten does not definitively state that Malaya was inside the convoy, but he did state that she was "with the convoy." That sounds pretty much like she was inside the convoy, but left it at night. Hmmm. I'll have to reconsider my opinion.

[Alpha Von Burg]

I found a Revenge class battleship in the middle of a convoy just south of Folkestone and I think west of Boulogne, October -- 1939, heading south-west, going along the Channel. I have 2 fore torps, no fore reserves, 1 str torp and 1 str reserve.

I fire all my fore torps, 1 hit and the other disappeared. I fire my str torp, it too disappeares. I had to bug out.

The only thing I succeded was in damaging the battleship.

Now, I'm left with 1 str torpedo, 1 external str torpedo, 1 external fore torpedo and a bunch of fuel.

so close

[K-61]

Originally Posted by Alpha Von Burg

I found a Revenge class battleship in the middle of a convoy just south of Folkestone and I think west of Boulogne, October -- 1939, heading south-west, going along the Channel. I have 2 fore torps, no fore reserves, 1 str torp and 1 str reserve.

I fire all my fore torps, 1 hit and the other disappeared. I fire my str torp, it too disappeares. I had to bug out.

The only thing I succeded was in damaging the battleship.

Now, I'm left with 1 str torpedo, 1 external str torpedo, 1 external fore torpedo and a bunch of fuel.

so close

Tough luck. It did happen. Although in the game you do not get renown for damaging ships, in real life such an attack did have consequences of value to the war effort. Listening to Osten's account, above, Malaya was sent to New York for 3/4 of a year. That's nine months she was not available for missions and tying up precious dockyard space and shipyard workers who could otherwise be employed. Surely that is still a valuable result, but not as satisfactory as a sinking?

What happened to your target? Did it reduce speed? I've found in my gaming that I don't always get a sinking with the first attack, but enough damage is inflicted to force the ship to reduce speed and fall behind the convoy. Even better, she loses all steam and sits there like a sleeping duck, making for an easy kill shot once you survive the counterattack of the angry escorts.

[Alpha Von Burg]

...Although in the game you do not get renown for damaging ships...

I know...
not getting the renown was not the frustrating part, it was the fact that I didn't sink it.

[Herr-Berbunch]

I've yet to come across any capital ships or carriers, am I looking in the right place, the big wet area in the middle?

That said, I do tend to avoid the things that fight back, but if I ever do get the opportunity I will..

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

I've yet to come across any capital ships or carriers, am I looking in the right place, the big wet area in the middle?

That said, I do tend to avoid the things that fight back, but if I ever do get the opportunity I will..

Don't know what date you're playing at, but if you hang about in or around the fjord that forms the approach to Narvik during the Battle of Norway, it's a good bet you'll encounter something interesting.

My only capital ship so far was the Warspite and I got her there.

Funny thing was, I think she's the only capital ship I've spotted this career. Intercepted a task force she was in, west of Scotland, a couple of months into the war and even got a shot at her but everything missed.

She also turned up in the middle of a northern bound convoy coming out of Freetown, about two months after I sank her in the Vestfjord. I left her alone that time, I ain't messin' with no ghost ship.

[Herr-Berbunch]

OK, next time I restart a career I'll make sure to head up to Norway early '40. I usually avoid that way on, maybe that's why I never meet them?