Quick question about escaping escorts

[Drewcifer]

Glad to get some reinforcements Krauter!

Its not a matter of skill, its not a realistically possible plan.

No Sub captain is marching in to sacrifice his boat over a carrier to dance with 12 escorts in the english channel.

Don't change the difficulty settings, make better tactical choices.

[sbelcl]

Originally Posted by Drewcifer

Glad to get some reinforcements Krauter!

Its not a matter of skill, its not a realistically possible plan.

No Sub captain is marching in to sacrifice his boat over a carrier to dance with 12 escorts in the english channel.

Don't change the difficulty settings, make better tactical choices.

You're right. But i thought it's 1939 so they can't be that good! Obviously i was wrong!

[Drewcifer]

Regardless of the date, going head to head with a task force of that size, in the english channel... is nothing short of suicide.

Put yourself in the boat.. your real flesh and blood self.

As Krauter said.. a real captain would make a contact report.. take some readings, speed, course.. and shadow.

Deeper water, perhaps dark of night, ideal weather.. as a u boat captain stealth IS your weapon, do everything in your power to make the fight on YOUR terms. essentially you are a coward, always picking the unfair fight.. BUT thats just the way it is, your smaller, and less equiped you will never be able to go toe to toe with destroyers.

And with that amount they can sit off you and passively track you while making DC runs on you all day.

Honestly unless I was ordered to kill that carrier as captain of my boat i'd just report the task force to bdu and continue on my way. There is plenty of targets to be had and for alot less trouble.

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by sbelcl

You're right. But i thought it's 1939 so they can't be that good! Obviously i was wrong!

that's because until we can clone .gr2 files I had to setup IRAI for the later years of the war. You can change the difficulty parameters as you progress with the game to model the changing in equipment over the years of the war though That's one way to simulate newer and better equipment for the enemy as the war progressed on.

[stoianm]

Originally Posted by Drewcifer

Glad to get some reinforcements Krauter!

Its not a matter of skill, its not a realistically possible plan.

No Sub captain is marching in to sacrifice his boat over a carrier to dance with 12 escorts in the english channel.

Don't change the difficulty settings, make better tactical choices.

if i am understanding wright what you wrotted here, your opinion is, that, to have succes in attacking ships is related about how good you make your tactical plans of attack - so if you are able to do a proper attack plan this means in my opinion that you have skills and having good skills then you can have irai at expert level.
If you are not capable to elaborate an good attack plan means (in my opinion of cource) that you must practice more and in meean time you can help you a bit by setting the IRAI at your level (beginer or intermediate) - this i was talking about when i spoked about the skills related to the IRAI setting levels.

regards,
stoianm