Convoy attacks at night

[bert8for3]

Originally Posted by P_Funk

So recently I have returned to SH3 with GW installed for the first time and I am now shadowing my first convoy. In the same patrol I've already attacked, successfully, 2 lone merchants, but I couldn't see them until they were 2km away so I had to rely on my watch officer for all my info. How do you guys do it? How do you target different merchants at night with the limitations of the watch officer's "nearest target" option? I don't want to cheat and ask my Weapons Officer for a solution but thinking ahead I can't imagine it going otherwise.

I'm trying to get the hang of this also, on my second attack on this convoy. On the first attack in late afternoon, I was well ahead of the convoy and had a good handle on convoy course, looped around the right side and in towards the convoy, then ran in submerged and got two merchants on a nice 85deg approach. Trailed the convoy after that until dark, then looped back around ahead. Now it's 0430 and I can't see a thing much over 3km or so. I'm also having a much harder time getting a grip on the convoy course. I think they may have changed course after the first attack. I keep getting in a bad position and just now tried a surface attack from the convoy's portside ahead, quartering in, but ran smack into an escort. I'd saved before, 'cause I want to try this again.