Convoy wiped out in Grid DH

[Keelbuster]

Heh - just wiped out an entire convoy - 23 ships - in the northwest corner of Grid DH. When i encountered her (IXC, June '41), the water was still and for some reason the convoy became alerted by my presence and started swerving. I was annoyed, and seeing as my perfect strike was ruined I decided to take out the lead escort, a Black Swan. A keelshot at 800m ended her. She was pinging me even as her bow was underwater

I then waded into the convoy and started taking keelshots on various big ships. I was approached by the two remaining escorts (trawlers) and decided to take them out too. Now, be advised, I was using Weapon Officer assistance for every shot, so it was kinda cheating. Anyway, I then focused on taking out the remaining C2s and C3s who had deck guns - I just sailed along with the convoy at 6kts, reloading my tubes and firing as necessary. I surfaced and finished off the final listing C2 in a dawn gun battle.

Then, free as can be, I sauntered about the convoy lanes, lighting up ships with the deck gun. Thanks to GWX, ships tend to 'brew up' easy with a few 10.5cm rounds, and I sunk a bunch of small merchants with ~5 shells each. I then lazily reloaded the externals and went for keelshots on the remaining helpless ships. It was shameful:p

Now I'm heading back towards gibraltar with my 3 remaining torps, and 169,000 in tonnage sunk.

Ducimus: if there's a tonnage contest, Weapon Officer assistance _must_ be off

[Brag]

Nothing wrong with WO assistance, that's why you have officers onboard. Congratahoochies on your shamefully murderous act. You must have left Bernard fishing on a life raft.

[bigboywooly]

:hmm:
Didnt think ant convoys had Armed trawlers as escorts at that ime
will have to look at that

[Keelbuster]

Originally Posted by bigboywooly

:hmm:
Didnt think ant convoys had Armed trawlers as escorts at that ime
will have to look at that

Wait - maybe they were flower class. Anyway, they look the same, right?

[Jimbuna]

Congratulations kaleun, but what realism setting were you on :hmm:

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by Keelbuster

Wait - maybe they were flower class. Anyway, they look the same, right?

:rotfl:
Your patrol report will tell you anyway
Esp if you use SH3commander

[STEED]

Bloody Butcher get that scum.........

That's what the Allies would say.

As for Bdu..........

Be more aggressive.

[Keelbuster]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Congratulations kaleun, but what realism setting were you on :hmm:

Heh. Yea - maxed out realism except for WE assistance. I mean - if you take out all the escorts, and are using WE assistance, how much easier can it get?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Keelbuster

Heh. Yea - maxed out realism except for WE assistance. I mean - if you take out all the escorts, and are using WE assistance, how much easier can it get?

True

[Corsair]

Originally Posted by Brag

Nothing wrong with WO assistance, that's why you have officers onboard. Congratahoochies on your shamefully murderous act. You must have left Bernard fishing on a life raft.

The thing wrong is that he is able to give a precise fire solution in 1 sec... If it took him a reasonable time to estimate distance/speed/AOB (let's say around minimum 1 minute), there would be nothing wrong.

[Keelbuster]

Originally Posted by Corsair

The thing wrong is that he is able to give a precise fire solution in 1 sec... If it took him a reasonable time to estimate distance/speed/AOB (let's say around minimum 1 minute), there would be nothing wrong.

Yea - that would be more realistic/challenging. This game would be so much better if the designers had thought to sprinkle some variability onto the data collection process.