Tracking Down Shipping Lanes & Fleets

[Zero Niner]

Hey, that's a neat system! You can even see roughly where the contact is headed.
Only bummer is no date/time info, so you won't go off for something that's probably despawned.

[Monica Lewinsky]

Originally Posted by Zero Niner

Hey, that's a neat system! You can even see roughly where the contact is headed.
Only bummer is no date/time info, so you won't go off for something that's probably despawned.

Here is my logic [if any]:

- I ALWAYS satisfy the main mission goal FIRST [while drawing the circles en-route - passes the boring times even with TC [time compress.].

- I NEVER exceed 1/3 speed, but I do exceed that when a contact is 30 miles or less and ALWAYS attempt an "end around" approach regardless of the time of day, then dive.

- I NEVER report in to headquarters to give a status report, thusly I can head to the circle areas where in the past there has been KNOWN shipping traffic. I do radio in Convoy contacts.

- After the main mission goal is accomplished, I plot courses to the nearest circles that would use the least amount of fuel to get there.

My success ratio is 50-75% of finding a new or newer ship/ships in a circle. I find it takes out the guess work of where to go and where them rats have been.

Good LUCK!

[Fishie]

One word.

Palau.

[simsurfer]

I like the circles on the map, that I will try next time I play

[gAiNiAc]

Originally Posted by Fishie

One word.

Palau.

Good fishin' there!

Last night I had some unbelievable luck. Came across a carrier by her lonesome with just one destroyer running ahead of her. When I configured for that patrol, I had unwittingly chosen to have four of those little ASW torpedoes in the aft reserves. That meant after my usual patrol had been satisfied, I had four of those minies plus two MK18s in the stern with four german torps in the bow tubes (I forget the name, they're wakeless).

I decided to go after the destroyer first. Fired three bow torpedoes at the destroyer. Two missed, the third blew her to bits (shattered her backbone) on impact.

After that, I was down to just six torpedoes: Two regulars, and four ASW torps. Since I had only one MK18 torpedo in the rear tubes and the rest occupied by those "minies", I had one removed and the tube loaded with a regular torpedo while I fired off the other MK18 at her midsection.

She took the hit handily, didn't sink, only suffered a minor list. I cranked off the other two Mini's into her bow and stern to help improve the flood rate, and improve it did. She started listing more, but wasn't about to go down yet. By this time, the last remaining MK 18 Torpedo had been loaded and ready. I had it fired immediately into the area immediately astern to her midsection.

She continued being stubborn despite the increasing list, and I debated on surfacing to utilize the deckgun when the crew decided to abandon the carrier. Scratch one shiny new Carrier from the list of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

P.S. I plan on starting a new thread on this forum with a running log of each of my patrols in my second career for your reading pleasure since I seem to write these rather well.

[Zero Niner]