Managed to Survive the Drum

[Armistead]

If you get a ship they is not red, but gray, one of two things happened. Either you sunk it without seeing it, such as in a storm or it crashed. Not sure with all mods, but some give you credit for sinking it even if you don't see it, some don't. I often will shoot ships by sonar in a storm that I never see using torps or the deckgun. I will get a gray sunk icon, but do get credit for them.

Once in awhile you may see a plane fly over land and crash and appear as a sunken gray ship icon....pilot ran into a mountain and that's the way the game shows sunken things on land.

[Folducker]

Originally Posted by Armistead

If you get a ship they is not red, but gray, one of two things happened. Either you sunk it without seeing it, such as in a storm or it crashed. Not sure with all mods, but some give you credit for sinking it even if you don't see it, some don't. I often will shoot ships by sonar in a storm that I never see using torps or the deckgun. I will get a gray sunk icon, but do get credit for them.

Once in awhile you may see a plane fly over land and crash and appear as a sunken gray ship icon....pilot ran into a mountain and that's the way the game shows sunken things on land.

That makes sense. I have found that once I pop up in the middle of the convoy even on the blackest of the nights, I am spotted almost immediately, especially if I have the periscope raised. I have to get doors opened and make sure that the position keeper on the TDC is not turned on as I only have seconds to set up and shoot. (Previously, I set up a beautiful attack on two huge passenger liners doing 17 knots that were being escorted by 4 destroyers. I got up to periscope depth at the perfect time, 1000 yards away. Took the rear ship first, locked on with the position keeper and fired three fish. Switched targets to the front one, and fired three more. Only problem was, I was still locked on the rear ship. Getting hit with 6 fish really took care of the guy in back, but I had to watch the one in front sail away at 18 knots).

This time, I was giving everything I could see two fish with the hope that I could hang around deep and pick off anything that was damaged but still not sunk. Those two medium freighters both sunk after taking one fish each. I did get cedit for it.