What is your favorite weather ro attack in?

Falcon666 · 01-14-07, 08:56 PM

Gotta go with calm, moonless night... let's you sneak in real close while still on the surface.

andy_311 · 01-14-07, 09:03 PM

Any apart from heavy fog will do me.

GT182 · 01-14-07, 09:20 PM

A semi dark night, half moon, will do fine. Also a hazy day with 7 to 9m/s winds will do fine too.

Or how about this, which I was in for 2 days straight in GWX. No joke, it was Grid BE18 Oct 9th & 10th, 1940.

It's one way for the crew to shower and save the subs fresh water supply.

codmander · 01-14-07, 10:09 PM

Sun setting on your 180

HEMISENT · 01-14-07, 11:40 PM

I've done 5 or 6 WAW patrols now attacking convoys on the surface in dark, stormy nights, the nastier the better as the escorts have trouble spotting you. I try to set up a 90 AOB attack run cutting across the convoy lanes firing at 500m or less. Makes for some outstanding imersion, also makes for some outstanding repairs when the DD's finally catch up.

oldpdb · 01-15-07, 12:04 AM

Calm sea? Moonless night? What the heck is that? Ever sense I installed GWX I always know when I'm close to a convoy because the weather turns to Baaad. Today, ma last convoy was in 15knt/sec wind. Seas high as a mountain. This was my 7th patrol in my trusty VIIC-2. A DD snuck up on me and sent all hands to the bottom. This was on the 7th of Aug 1942 off the NW coast of N. Africa.
I haven't had calm sea state since I installed GWX. Is it programed for bad weather? All the time when you find a convoy? :hmm:

Dallass_Drake · 01-15-07, 12:12 AM

Just anything calm, then if I'm in the middle of the convoy and a merchant isn't cooperating with me, I can just surface and put a few deck gun rounds into it to finish it off, with a hail of shells raining down around me and into the surrounding vessels. Then dive and hide underneath something and make my escape

01-14-07, 09:20 PM	#3
GT182 Ocean Warrior Join Date: May 2005 Location: New Castle of Delaware Posts: 3,231 Downloads: 658 Uploads: 0	A semi dark night, half moon, will do fine. Also a hazy day with 7 to 9m/s winds will do fine too. Or how about this, which I was in for 2 days straight in GWX. No joke, it was Grid BE18 Oct 9th & 10th, 1940. It's one way for the crew to shower and save the subs fresh water supply. __________________ Gary No Borders, No Language, No Culture =s No Country I'm a Deplorable, and proud of it.

01-14-07, 11:40 PM	#5
HEMISENT Ace of the Deep Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Northern Illinois Posts: 1,052 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 0	I've done 5 or 6 WAW patrols now attacking convoys on the surface in dark, stormy nights, the nastier the better as the escorts have trouble spotting you. I try to set up a 90 AOB attack run cutting across the convoy lanes firing at 500m or less. Makes for some outstanding imersion, also makes for some outstanding repairs when the DD's finally catch up. __________________ Nuke 'em till they glow!

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01-14-07, 08:56 PM	#1
Falcon666 Seaman Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 33 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	Gotta go with calm, moonless night... let's you sneak in real close while still on the surface.

01-14-07, 09:03 PM	#2
andy_311 The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Oldham, Lancs,England Posts: 1,312 Downloads: 82 Uploads: 0	Any apart from heavy fog will do me.

01-14-07, 10:09 PM	#4
codmander Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: cape cod mass. Posts: 678 Downloads: 59 Uploads: 0	Sun setting on your 180

01-15-07, 12:04 AM	#6
oldpdb Eternal Patrol Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 29 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Calm sea? Moonless night? What the heck is that? Ever sense I installed GWX I always know when I'm close to a convoy because the weather turns to Baaad. Today, ma last convoy was in 15knt/sec wind. Seas high as a mountain. This was my 7th patrol in my trusty VIIC-2. A DD snuck up on me and sent all hands to the bottom. This was on the 7th of Aug 1942 off the NW coast of N. Africa. I haven't had calm sea state since I installed GWX. Is it programed for bad weather? All the time when you find a convoy? :hmm:

01-15-07, 12:12 AM	#7
Dallass_Drake Bosun Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 62 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Just anything calm, then if I'm in the middle of the convoy and a merchant isn't cooperating with me, I can just surface and put a few deck gun rounds into it to finish it off, with a hail of shells raining down around me and into the surrounding vessels. Then dive and hide underneath something and make my escape