Convoy Takedown - Page 2

Biggles · 10-08-06, 10:26 AM

I remember my best convoy attack up to date.

Can't remember the date or year, can't even remember what sub I had, but I suppose it was sometime after 1941, because I ran into an american convoy. I was heading straight west to my grid when I got a radio message about a convoy heading east in exactly my path. I hit flank speed and went on, I didn't need to chance my course. After 4 hours I understood that they had to be very close now so I went to periscope depth and rigged for silent running.....what do you know......just a coupple of minutes later I spotter the first escorts away in front of me. After them came the convoy itself. I let them come real close, the escorts went by and I turned to get a clear shot at the ships from the sides, then turned again to take aim.

It was too long ago to give you the details of the main assault, but I sank 7 ships during that early morning somewhere in the Atlantic......

Wulfmann · 10-08-06, 10:35 AM

Because I made the enemy sensors so strong I can not be near a late war convoy undetected unless I am not in a sonar sweep path and at full silent and at 1knot. I can now no longer reload at all or will be detected so I get 5 fish and dive deep under the merchants as close as I can stay then try and sneak away.
Because I have made the smallest number of escorts in any 5/43 on convoy 12 and as many as 20 sinking escorts just means hordes replacing them all pissed off like.
I only fire at them when I can not get in a convoy and they are chasing me down. reduces the number hunting my fleeing ars
I have tweaked this based on the historic accounts and finally feel (IMO) I have it as close as I can to duplicate reality. I will shortly go back and re-tweak early war but I was always getting to 1943 and being killed (DID) so have stayed with mid 43 to end to learn the hard part better. Frankly the early years just seem too easy now.

Wulfmann

bookworm_020 · 10-08-06, 06:56 PM

Some of the early war convoys it's best to take down the escort/'s and then proceed on surface destroying anything you can find. But as time passes, and escorts increase in number and destructive power, I tend to do a submerged attack at close range, 1,200 - 900m, aiming at the most juicy of targets (tankers, transports and the rare as hen's teeth, passanger liners)

View Poll Results: How do you take down a convoy?
Kill the escorts and finish the rest with Torps or the Deck Gun	13	18.31%
Get in do some damage get out and come back for seconds.	58	81.69%
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10-08-06, 10:26 AM	#1
Biggles Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Sweden (I'm not a Viking...) Posts: 3,529 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I remember my best convoy attack up to date. Can't remember the date or year, can't even remember what sub I had, but I suppose it was sometime after 1941, because I ran into an american convoy. I was heading straight west to my grid when I got a radio message about a convoy heading east in exactly my path. I hit flank speed and went on, I didn't need to chance my course. After 4 hours I understood that they had to be very close now so I went to periscope depth and rigged for silent running.....what do you know......just a coupple of minutes later I spotter the first escorts away in front of me. After them came the convoy itself. I let them come real close, the escorts went by and I turned to get a clear shot at the ships from the sides, then turned again to take aim. It was too long ago to give you the details of the main assault, but I sank 7 ships during that early morning somewhere in the Atlantic...... __________________

10-08-06, 10:35 AM	#2
Wulfmann Ace of the Deep Join Date: May 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 1,010 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Because I made the enemy sensors so strong I can not be near a late war convoy undetected unless I am not in a sonar sweep path and at full silent and at 1knot. I can now no longer reload at all or will be detected so I get 5 fish and dive deep under the merchants as close as I can stay then try and sneak away. Because I have made the smallest number of escorts in any 5/43 on convoy 12 and as many as 20 sinking escorts just means hordes replacing them all pissed off like. I only fire at them when I can not get in a convoy and they are chasing me down. reduces the number hunting my fleeing ars I have tweaked this based on the historic accounts and finally feel (IMO) I have it as close as I can to duplicate reality. I will shortly go back and re-tweak early war but I was always getting to 1943 and being killed (DID) so have stayed with mid 43 to end to learn the hard part better. Frankly the early years just seem too easy now. Wulfmann __________________ "The right to keep and bear arms should not be infringed upon, if only to prevent tyranny in government" Thomas Jefferson,; Constitutional debates

10-08-06, 06:56 PM	#3
bookworm_020 Navy Seal Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sinking ships off the Australian coast Posts: 5,966 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Some of the early war convoys it's best to take down the escort/'s and then proceed on surface destroying anything you can find. But as time passes, and escorts increase in number and destructive power, I tend to do a submerged attack at close range, 1,200 - 900m, aiming at the most juicy of targets (tankers, transports and the rare as hen's teeth, passanger liners) __________________ "There is always one person in any organization who knows whats going on, That person must be fired"

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