SH3/GWX Newbie

[Corsair]

In the beginning, try to avoid places where there are good chances to have DDs on patrol, start in early war and make your hand by attacking lonely merchants.
The later try your hand at a couple of convoys.
It's like it's been for all of us : read in depth and understand the manuals, if posible have a few readings in books or on the net about the real thing, and it takes some time to build an experience..

[Makr]

Originally Posted by Corsair

In the beginning, try to avoid places where there are good chances to have DDs on patrol, start in early war and make your hand by attacking lonely merchants.
The later try your hand at a couple of convoys.
It's like it's been for all of us : read in depth and understand the manuals, if posible have a few readings in books or on the net about the real thing, and it takes some time to build an experience..

yeah, i've already started avoiding quite a few places....tell ya, doesn't take much to get into trouble. thanks for the feedback......time to head out to sea!

[stabiz]

Welcome, mate!

Run silent, run deep, and manually plot speed to 2 knots if detected.

PS: Later in the war you will get some acoustic torpedoes (escort killers), and bold (distraction).

Its all about practice, as stated already. Good luck!

[johan_d]

Oh, do not hesitate to ask more questions, we are nice people, glad to help!

[andy_311]

there's always the other option if your brave enough take out the DD's it's not that hard.

I use the Type VII pretty much all the time, and while the DD's are tougher with the GWX mod I normally find that if I go on silent running at 2kts and dive below the 160m mark I can survive the worst they can throw at me. Bearing in mind my career is late 1941 at the moment, so I'm sure the DD's will become ruthless later on.

I also run on the surface after dark and remain submerged during daylight hours - especially when running near the UK coastline, the amount of patrolling DD's and corevettes make it very risky to remain surfaced nearer land.

The key is to spot the enemy before he spots you

[Corsair]

Originally Posted by andy_311

there's always the other option if your brave enough take out the DD's it's not that hard.

As I suppose you don't take them on with your deck guns, it means you're wasting precious torpedoes with some miss probability when the same torpedoes could bring you big merchants on your log...

[Corsair]

@ Makr :

" I do tend to run on the surface until something sees me. "

Confirm this is not a good idea, specially in places covered by airbases...

[Makr]

Originally Posted by stabiz

Welcome, mate!

Thanks

Originally Posted by Goose_green

I also run on the surface after dark and remain submerged during daylight hours - especially when running near the UK coastline, the amount of patrolling DD's and corevettes make it very risky to remain surfaced nearer land.

I do tend to run on the surface until something sees me. I'll try this next time...and it sounds like I need to move A LOT slower


@All: Thanks for all the feedback!

[Jimbuna]

Go to periscope depth at regular intervals and travel at slow speed so you can 'listen' through your hydrophones for a while...they can 'hear' much further than your lookouts can 'see'