Now I understand the frustration

[Keelbuster]

Originally Posted by dcb

Escorts now come right at me even before I can get a fix on the convoy on my (primitive) radar.

Turn off your radar. You're broadcasting your presence and position over an electromagnetic loud-speaker. I never use radar, and as of yet have not found any use for it, except for locating lone un-armed merchants in heavy fog.

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by Keelbuster

Turn off your radar. You're broadcasting your presence and position over an electromagnetic loud-speaker. I never use radar, and as of yet have not found any use for it, except for locating lone un-armed merchants in heavy fog.

agreed. It is a near useless tool and you might as well launch signal flares every nautical mile you move forward... leave it off or dont equip it on your boat at all.

I have found that if you leave map contact updates ON you will see the little grey contact line that represents a radar signal... if you stay right on the outer most edge of this line they will not detect you... try to exploit this to your advantage if you can, but this is very difficult to do.

radar was the final blow to the U-boat war IMHO... my strategy for late war is to remain submerged for as long as possible, only surfacing at night to recharge batteries and when i do so i am moving at flank speed.

hunting ships should be dont almost entirely by hydrophone after 1943... your war is pretty much over after that point.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

hunting ships should be dont almost entirely by hydrophone after 1943... your war is pretty much over after that point.

Too true the tonnage takes a nose dive.

Thank you Adolf for the long term scientific cut backs in 1940.

[dcb]

Thanks everybody for the good advice & tactics. Will try them for the remainder of my patrol. Too bad I already spent renown for the radar Now I'm off to stalking the Med route of convoys near Algiers.

[Jimbuna]

Make hay whilst the sun shines

Stormy weather ahead

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by dcb

Thanks everybody for the good advice & tactics. Will try them for the remainder of my patrol. Too bad I already spent renown for the radar Now I'm off to stalking the Med route of convoys near Algiers.

Ack! Lost my last boat near there in September 1943. Ran afoul of a really nasty Tribal class destroyer with a plentiful supply of hedgehogs.

[Fenris_Wolf]

Thank you Adolf for the long term scientific cut backs in 1940

I guess those experiments in castle wolfenstein for super soldiers and super assasin ladies as well as diverting all the research towards super secret project of atomicbombspacerocketcannonlaserbeamtimetravelnerv egasblarghlol left no funds for advancing the u-boat service.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Good thread.

We worked our hooties off on the sensors in GWX. (...and everthying else too for that matter LOL!)

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Fenris_Wolf

I guess those experiments in castle wolfenstein for super soldiers and super assasin ladies as well as diverting all the research towards super secret project of atomicbombspacerocketcannonlaserbeamtimetravelnerv egasblarghlol left no funds for advancing the u-boat service.

Erm right yea.