Convoys

Jimbuna · 09-29-12, 12:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TwoGamers

P.S Im using vannila i can't find a GWX install I can use

There is a working link to GWX above my sig.

Here is a link to the GWX manual which has a section on attacking convoys:

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?47o39s3idaaiej9

Buhring · 09-29-12, 02:48 PM

I prefer sneaking under the forward escort and then make a fast, submerged attack on three good targets form the central lines of the convoy (two with forward tubes, one with the aft). Then usually I have to dive deep in order to evade the ASW units -- but early in the war they are dumb enough. If I had sunk all three targets, i reload and restart the attack. Else I spend some time sinking the stragglers, then I make a pretty circle around the convoy and start again.

Jimbuna · 09-29-12, 02:50 PM

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!!

TwoGamers · 09-29-12, 06:20 PM

Ah no Im in a VIIB, but the convoy started zig-zagging and speeding up after i launched the torpedos, so I got no kills. On my way back to base an aircraft got a hit on my bow dive planes, then another one finished me of with a hit to the engines.

Jimbuna · 09-29-12, 06:22 PM

Not a lucky boat to be on then

TwoGamers · 09-30-12, 03:35 AM

Yeah hoping for a better career this time.

Jimbuna · 09-30-12, 06:01 AM

Fair winds and following seas

Spruence M · 09-30-12, 12:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TwoGamers

... On my way back to base an aircraft got a hit on my bow dive planes, then another one finished me of with a hit to the engines.

I dont even fight aircraft, its just auto dive for me.

TwoGamers · 09-30-12, 08:20 PM

I did but my useless watch crew didn't see it until it was on it's attack run and it dropped the bomb as i ordered a crash dive but it hit my dive planes so I couldn't dive fast enough and a second one hit my engines destrying them.

Gargamel · 09-30-12, 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TwoGamers

I did but my useless watch crew didn't see it until it was on it's attack run and it dropped the bomb as i ordered a crash dive but it hit my dive planes so I couldn't dive fast enough and a second one hit my engines destrying them.

No officer on deck?

09-29-12, 02:50 PM	#3
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,862 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

09-29-12, 06:22 PM	#5
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,862 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Not a lucky boat to be on then __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

09-30-12, 06:01 AM	#7
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,862 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Fair winds and following seas __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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09-29-12, 02:48 PM	#2
Buhring Helmsman Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Italy Posts: 108 Downloads: 122 Uploads: 0	I prefer sneaking under the forward escort and then make a fast, submerged attack on three good targets form the central lines of the convoy (two with forward tubes, one with the aft). Then usually I have to dive deep in order to evade the ASW units -- but early in the war they are dumb enough. If I had sunk all three targets, i reload and restart the attack. Else I spend some time sinking the stragglers, then I make a pretty circle around the convoy and start again.

09-29-12, 06:20 PM	#4
TwoGamers Officer Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Australia Posts: 240 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Ah no Im in a VIIB, but the convoy started zig-zagging and speeding up after i launched the torpedos, so I got no kills. On my way back to base an aircraft got a hit on my bow dive planes, then another one finished me of with a hit to the engines.

09-30-12, 03:35 AM	#6
TwoGamers Officer Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Australia Posts: 240 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Yeah hoping for a better career this time.

09-30-12, 08:20 PM	#9
TwoGamers Officer Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Australia Posts: 240 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	I did but my useless watch crew didn't see it until it was on it's attack run and it dropped the bomb as i ordered a crash dive but it hit my dive planes so I couldn't dive fast enough and a second one hit my engines destrying them.