Destroyers-Run or hide? What do YOU do?

[2019]

before 1.3 patch i could attack every dumb DD, now after the patch they aren't so dumb anymore, so all i do is hide and run.

[Das_Dutchman]

When attacking a convoy, and depending on a.) the amount of torpedos I have and b.) the collection of high tonnage the convoy consists of, I will sometimes try and sink the escorts if there aren't too many (early years).

It's worth the risk if I can finish the escorts off and get myself a T2 and/or T3 and depending on weather finish all the heavy runners with my deck gun.

Oh ja, I'm playing with 50% realism - so it works at this level

[Dowly]

I hide and I`m proud of it.

[SmokinTep]

I avoid em unless one happens to come across the bow........ :P

[Farside]

i fight it out. not on the surface mind.

[Letum]

I get deep and quiet asap

[HundertzehnGustav]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Im not particular, Ill just as soon put a torpedo in a DD or DE just as soon as a C2.

The only time ill evade, is:
1.) they're an armed trawller - that just aint worth a torpedo.
2.) THey've detected me.

all same here

but in 39 and 40 i ll enjoy a good Gun duel with the trawlers any day...

[_Seth_]

Well, this might sound stupid, but first i check the depth of their keel, lets say its 3,2 meters. I then set a magnetic torp at 4 meters, and the i make sure they notice me (flank speed). the stupid brits then turn against my position at full speed. I plot a collision course towards them, and fire the magnetic torp at about 3500-3600 meters, so it can impact before they start zig-zagging. then i just watch the big boom in the scope.

[bookworm_020]

Sometimes I'll tke out the lead destroyer in a convoy, as it's a great diversion. When you sink him (he's often the biggest and baddest of the escorts), the other's race to find me, but by the time they get to where there leader went down, I'm in the middle of the convoy, ripping it apart!

God I love being a U-boat skipper, I get to put the fear of God into Churchill!

[Soviet_Sharpshooter]

lol run or hide? i surface and take em on with my deck gun!!! The trick is to stay behind them so your only dealing with one of there guns

Oh and playing on 0% realism :rotfl:

[WilhelmSchulz.]

sometimes I try to sink them sometimes I hide. It depends on my mood.

[Oldgamer48]

Even though I'm new at SH3, I'm an old Aces of the Deep warrior. I'm not trying to be smart, just stating a fact: A submarine is stealthy for one reason ... it can dive and hide. On the surface, especially after 1942, radar makes life unbearable.

However, my method is simple, especially when I've encountered a convoy. Make a good approach, fire all forward torps at different ships, and dive deep. Once there, I go silent and play the cat-and-mouse game. Eventually, the DDs have to get back with their convoy (I've actually waited until they've expended all of the depth charges).

Then, I come slowly back up to periscope depth and pick off any ships my initial torpedoes didn't sink. After 1942, I never surface in the vicinity of a convoy, beacuse of the radar. Also, I never stay on the surface if there's an aircraft around, even early in the war. It's not worth the risk.

However, after the escort carriers make their appearance, I will do almost anything to get within range of one of them. Sink this ship, and convoy is back to DD/DE's. Any other boats participating in the attack will be safer, and have more luck against the merchies.

[_Seth_]

I overheard Bernard talking about this subject with the machinist (Bernard is active on subsim,you know), and he litteraly shocked me:

Bernard: "Well, theze deztroyers aren't so dangerouze after all. Sometimez they just pass overhead of you, trying to make contact. Since we cant szpeak with them under wasser, they use to send us some zort of code, like "Ping" "Ping".. And when they find out that we dont underztand them, they get angry and drop some boom-boomz at us. I believe that they only need a friend, zo next time they try to ping-ping us, i will blow ballazt und surface, so i can give all of them a nice group-hug.."

If Ive got time to avoid them then usually I'll just dive and keep an eye on it with the hydraphone and scope checks , But if it starts to take too much intrest in me or I get jumped by one the lookouts didnt see till to late then I get aggresive, im averaging 1 destroyer a cruise so far , my best was a V&W that i killed in a surface gun battle 3-4 days ago - I hit it with a torp and it turned and ran , so i surfaced and chased it (I have no idea why i did that) , got the deckgun to aim at weapons and killed all its guns , finished it off with waterline shots into its stern , sametime i was hitting the destroyer an armed trawler came running to its aid so i shot it up with the deckgun and AA gun as well

[stabiz]

I am a "it depends"-kaleun. If the bearing is right, I attack. If its wrong I dive like a sunburned penguin and tell the crew to shut up, or else ...