current campaign

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by washishu

Was going to post this in the "Tell us what you are up to in your current campaign" thread but it won't open—maybe because there are so many replies, I dunno.

It's '41 and I'm off West Africa in a IXb. I've sunk two C2 freighters—my first attempts at manual targeting. Still having trouble getting it all set up quick enough and being able to adapt quickly to changes I didn't anticipate, but I'm getting better.

Missed one other ship, moving away and I decided not to engage in a chase. Missed two sightings in very bad weather—they just weren't where they should have been. Viz was down to about 200 yards.

Tracking another C2, still in heavy weather but I shall be patient and wait for it to improve.

Anybody got any tips for id-ing ships at night or in bad visibility?

Poor weather is a major double edged sword, ships sink faster but are in return harder to hit. In the poorest visibility sometimes you don't see the ship until your 500m away from it. Something that close (after you slam engines into reverse) just aim using your boat and fire the eels at 45 kts at 4 or 5 meters. If it doesn't sink it'll slow it down enough for you to get into a good firing position even with its zigzag.