Setting up for convoys?

[jetthelooter]

Originally Posted by howler93

Greetings fellow captains,

Using TM and manual targeting, I rarely am able to take more than one ship for a givin convoy attack...I'm just not good enough. Occasionally I'll be able to get a fore and stern shot off...but more often than not, I just end up wasting fish. I would recommend, however, if you do want to try to multiple targets, to fire your first salvo on slow speed, and your second on higher speed...that way you can get fairly simultaneous hits and their chances for evasion are less.

Regarding escorts...TM has some wicked destroyers. My old method of lining up at a 90 at periscope depth caused my boat some brutal depth chargings. Now I find I have to go deep, run silent, and slim my profile as much as possible. Of course, this leaves precious little time to collect torpedo data...but oh well! Hope this helps a little.

Good hunting!

Howler

in a convoy situation most of the data except range and bearing are identical. there is no need to set up a new speed track or target course once you have a damn good idea of what the covoy is doing. so identification is the only real issue.

identify the two or three you want to shoot at first. then picka shoot order usually farthest to closest. i then develop data on the closest ship since it is the easiest to track. once that is done your target coarse and speed is the same for each target . just fire ont he farthest one then pick the next send range and bearing make sure the target coarse has not changed on the aob setting then fire and do the next and so on. if done accurately all should hit at the same time.

[howler93]

Thanks for the tip Jetthelooder! I'll give it another shot on my next patrol...