GWX 1st time

[grenadier98]

Hi there,


I started tp play SH3 again, now the first time with GWX Gold on 100% (map contacts are on). I started in 1940 with a IXB and I wonder which places are the best to search for enemy convoys, where the convoy don't alter their course to often. I tried to get to a convoy southwest of Ireland (where the grids AL and AM meet, there should be two convoy routes and a route for single ships) and plotted an interception course after I got the radio message for the convoy. But hours after I reached my interception point I got another radio message and the convoy was more than 100 km off to the west. I tried to intercept it again but when I finally reached it the weather was so bad that I abondoned the attack because I could not get good solutions without the escorts pursuing me.

I'd like to ask a few more questions:

Do you attack escorted convoys during storms or fog? I find this close to impossible.

Does this list of capital ships also work for GWX? http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=89910

I realised that GWX removed the renown for your assigned search grids, but the renown for the ships sunk is almost the same like in stock SH3 while the requirements for better subs, equipment and promotions for your crew are also almost the same, which makes it harde to get them. I think of altering the basic.cfg so that I will get some renown for my search grids as well. Any ideas if it will break the balancing?

I got the feeling that I should use a type IX instead of a type VII because it carries more torpedos, which will make it easier to get the magic number of 60000 tons per patrol. In the game it can also dive deeper than the type VII, which is I thin is not historically correct.


Any help is really appreciated. Many thanks in advance.