Rough weather

Originally Posted by kapuhy

With really bad weather (like, you can see the target at 300-350 meters and your crew spots it at 200), I had some success attacking from stern tube at point blank range, something like this:



Red - enemy ship, black - U-Boat, green - torpedo path. I position myself on parallel course, overtake him and then turn 90 deg. away. With torpedo already pre-set in TDC, I fire when he starts to fade into the fog at about 300 meters. Even a zigzaging ship has little chance of dodging a shot at this distance (especially if it's big, and I don't even try to attack small ships in such a weather).

That or staying paralell to him, and firing off a 90 degree shot at 200 to 300 meters.
The torpedo travels about 100 meters before starting it's turn.

Either way can be pretty risky, and requires the TDC to be preset.
If he sees, and turns toward us we loose.

Without the element of surprise, the whole thing is just a big crap shoot.
Not my style.