Tactics and Capabilities Questions

[Daniel Prates]

Originally Posted by max-peck

I'm pretty sure that TMO does.

Can't comment on any others.

Someone just commented on that here, a couple of weeks ago, but now I cant remember who. Yeah, TMO deals with that.

In any case it was pretty ineffective, i suppose. If the merchant is escorted, the escort's sonar is a bigger concearn. And if it isn't, you can go ahead the targed and wait there, at 1 knot of perhaps even stopped, so this sonar doesn't help a lot...

[MinskMariner]

Thanks for the replies, everyone! I just finished my first career patrol in TMO but found out the hard way about merchants' armament. After expending almost all of my torpedoes in successful attacks and completing the photo recon objective, I ran across two merchants travelling separately but on an intersecting course.

It was nighttime off the Japanese coast and I had three torpedoes left, so naturally I decided to meet them at their point of near intersection and sink them both at once. I sunk the first merchant from 1000 yards away with two fish from my bow tubes and then swung my sub around to hit the other merchant from 2500 yards with my last remaining torpedo (in an aft tube).

I only damaged this second quarry and so decided to surface and take it out with my deck gun. As my crew began firing (quite inaccurately), the merchant began pelting my hull with what looked like machine gun fire. They were hitting their mark and, since the merchant was merely 2,500 tons, I decided it was not worth putting my crew and boat at risk by continuing the battle.

I submerged and beat it out of there, eventually sailing for Pearl. But man was I surprised to see the merchant firing back (this never happened to me in the stock version of the game)!

[magic452]

A lot of new things will start happening in TMO that didn't in stock.
If you think the merchants are bad wait till you get an airplane or two or some of Duci's evil DD's.

You might even get up close and personal with the sea floor.

Magic