How to get most out of campaign?

[KeldorKatarn]

I just finished my 5th patrol during Weserübung and I notice so far that I have a little too little to do.

I kinda wanted to play spending my time in one grid, the assigned one, and hope that the assignment makes sense.. I'm not so sure anymore.

The first patrol I went home empty, the third too but I managed to attack the british escorts of a neutral convoy near Norway and sunk a cruiser. Now in Weserübung I met the Hipper but let her go to hunt after a merchant in sight which turned out to be a German.

To make a long story short: I'd like to hear a few opinions, advices about how you guys play the campaign? (GMX 2.0 here, if refering to scripted events).

Should I stick to my assigned grid or search around using the convoy map and maybe the map my Operation Spinnennetz (which I found only now, never checked that thread before :P)
Should I have followed the Hipper to Trondheim? (I actually followed her for a while)

Any war stories, suggestions, opinions are welcome.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by KeldorKatarn

I just finished my 5th patrol during Weserübung and I notice so far that I have a little too little to do.

I kinda wanted to play spending my time in one grid, the assigned one, and hope that the assignment makes sense.. I'm not so sure anymore.

The first patrol I went home empty, the third too but I managed to attack the british escorts of a neutral convoy near Norway and sunk a cruiser. Now in Weserübung I met the Hipper but let her go to hunt after a merchant in sight which turned out to be a German.

To make a long story short: I'd like to hear a few opinions, advices about how you guys play the campaign? (GMX 2.0 here, if refering to scripted events).

Should I stick to my assigned grid or search around using the convoy map and maybe the map my Operation Spinnennetz (which I found only now, never checked that thread before :P)
Should I have followed the Hipper to Trondheim? (I actually followed her for a while)

Any war stories, suggestions, opinions are welcome.

Get used to searching farther afield because Operation Spinnennetz will be less accurate in GWX2.1.

Following Hipper would have been a good move.

The convoy route map is still good for rough estimation of the routes used.

Tip: Try lurking approx 250km west of Gib.....Always a good spot for catching convoys inward and outward bound.

[TS13]

first, I patrol my assigned grid, but it's never enough. I don't see why I have to go back while I still have torpedoes and fuel (usually I don't find anything there, anyway). So then I proceed to AM51/52/53 or
BE38/39 to unload my torps. I get so many contacts there, that I have never gone to Gibraltar yet.

[KeldorKatarn]

I didn't exactly mean just recommendations for good grids.. more like how you play.. do you follow ships that you know belong to something scripted?

Do you stay in one chosen grid or change during a patrol.. if so how many grids and how long do you stay in one. Stuff like that =)

[filefool]

I just daved the bismarck (i guess) just zwo hours ago. Sunk the king george V and put two torps into the Nelson. Didn't catch up with the bismarck but i think she could handle a single damged BB.

Read the GWX manuals for scripted events and a good book about u-boats for nice places to hunt.

And if that's not enough thrill try to raid a harbour.

[Ducimus]

>>How to get most out of campaign?

Why, by transffering to the 2nd flotilla and getting a type9C uboat of course. :rotfl:

[Brag]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

>>How to get most out of campaign?

Why, by transffering to the 2nd flotilla and getting a type9C uboat of course. :rotfl:

Ducimus, let's have a drink when we are in Lorient.

[Ducimus]

That might be a little hard for me to do right now; im on patrol in that big fishpond called the Pacific. But if i were to be in this campaign again, id be in a 9c, hunting down tankers in the carribean.

Not all patrols ended with massive tonnage.
But todays standards, with GPS and all that?
They were kind of abismal per days spent at sea.
In all reality?
Playing a WWII sim should have you going home
without scoreing a single kill.
It happened.
Is it really a sim if you beat the true odds?
Or is it just a game where you want to score the
most?

Each player will determine what they want.
And no one will be wrong.

[Keelbuster]

Don't go home until you are out of torps, or fuel. Do yer grid, then move on to somewhere you know you'll find action. Get a hot radio operator and wait for contact reports. Plot intercepts. Kill....

[SmokinTep]

I'll make it to my patrol grid, stay for 24 hours, then depending on fuel, etc, plot a course for a known convoy route making sure I will have enough fuel to get home.

[Elmer Kosterman]

If you want to patrol your grid and see more action, make sure you follow shipping lanes on your way to and from. You might also allow yourself to chase contacts reported outside your grid square. I remember a post from a guy that simulated a grid square reassignment from BdU: if he'd had no contacts for a week, he'd roll a die. If an even number came up, he'd remain in his square. If an odd number came up, he'd "assign" himself a new square. How he came up with the new square, I don't know, but you can radomly pick a nearby square.

Privateer is right, many patrols ended with torpedos and without fuel. If you have a dry patrol, try to bring it into the experience... it must be those idiots at BdU... have no idea what it's like out here from behind their desks (it can't be because the British have cracked our code, and are rerouting convoys around us, ).

[melnibonian]

If you are looking for more historical play you should try the Wolves at War Campaign. It's really good fun and it tries to follow historical events

[Jimbuna]

.....and if you get sunk before leaving the Biscay area, don't get annoyed......It happened to many boats (especially 43 onward)

[predavolk]

Originally Posted by filefool

I just daved the bismarck (i guess) just zwo hours ago. Sunk the king george V and put two torps into the Nelson. Didn't catch up with the bismarck but i think she could handle a single damged BB.

Read the GWX manuals for scripted events and a good book about u-boats for nice places to hunt.

And if that's not enough thrill try to raid a harbour.

Really!?! Did you set it up that way, or was this a random event?