Rough weather

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by Snestorm

Zig zagging means you've been detected. Attack over.

Disengage. Then you can take up the chase again in a few hours, if the weather permits.

An attack in Heavy Fog is not a good idé.
Visibilty 300 meters and under.
Torpedo arming reqires 300 meters and over.
Realy simple math says it isn't worth the risks.

Visibility that poor you usually end up running into the other boat! If you have fair-poor visibility and can see about 1000m or so you still have a shot of the large ships, though it will require either some measure of manual targeting.

You'll need to watch the movement of the boats and wait until the point when they zigzag towards your heading. Once they've started turning towards you plot the solution, unlock the scope and aim the recticle towards the forecastle of the ship, maybe a bit ahead of it using a medium to low depth setting. Imagine the ship is a baseball bat and you need to time your pitch (for this analogy assume you're in batting practice) so that when it reaches the batter the ball is in the position where his bat is swinging such that it makes contact.