How to intercept?

[banryu79]

Originally Posted by Zosimus

Finally, I've never had fuel as a consideration. You usually sail off, sink a bunch of ships, and sail back without using even half your fuel. As long as your normal day-to-day operations is ahead one-third, you're fine.

So, if I understood it the right way you are usual to intercept your contacts using very high speeds but for day-to-day ops on your patrol grid you move "carefully" (ahead 1/3).

Funny thing, I usually do it the other way around. As I already explained, I extensively plot my contacts routes and my intercept runs in such a way to try and minimize speed. Instead I normally run my day-to-day ops (grid patrol) ad at ahead standard (>10 knoten) when navigating above surface (my strategy is to cover my over-the-surface legs, where my detection radius is limited (visually based detection) in the fastest possible way till my next underwater stop-point, where I creep at 1 knoten silent running for about 20-30 minutes (this is my best chance at picking contacts because my acoustical detection range is far larger than the visual one).

Instead I usually run ahead 1/3 for my long range transitions (to/from home port) or for my strategical deployment at medium range (changing patrol zone).