Strange air activity June'43

Flippo84 · 07-10-09, 04:38 PM

Thanks for the warm entry

Just freed myself out of war captivity and set sail to La Rochelle to assume a new command

Just want to become a feeling of '43 - '45 with GWX 3.0, before starting a new carrier when being sunk. However, this was the first boat I lost during this carieer. Everybody should be given a 2nd chance.

This time I didn't touch a ship when a task group was close. Radar on the enemy escorts was quite hard. Just tryed to get ahead of the convoy, wich failed serveral times - thanks to very nice weather and radar. When I tryed to catch a look at the convoy's formation and juicy targets on surface, they got me anytime with radar (moderate visibility ~10km with 16k mod). Perhaps it's better while good visibility. The radar seem to have a radius of 8-9km, more for aircraft.

After arriving at the convoy's top I went down to 240m and sacked(?) into the convoy, but ended up in a bad position and was able to fire only one eel. Luckly I hit the tanker and he was forced to stop. Then I finished him in an end run but was catched up by a plane again after the sinking (91% pressure hull). Decided to carry on.

Sunk two more ore carriers after managing to slip twords one of the lead escorts and the side guard during heavy fog. It was very close, nearly the complete front of the convoy was ASDIC shielded. Even my only acustic eel wich sunk the lead escort didn't prevent them from building a new line of defense. I stopped penetrating the convoy at about 200 km to the canadian cost in expectation of more air support for the convoy defense. Went home and again had a peace and joyful little summer cruise in the biscaya without any allied aircraft

I forced me to observe the air above me before surfacing, this time. Safed my men after finishing the tanker. Good piece of advice

Has anybody developed a tactic to get information about the convoy's formation and the desireable targets in it without getting picked up by destroyers radar? Observing it via attack scope while submerged didn't work good for me, because of speed and noise issues.

07-10-09, 04:38 PM	#9
Flippo84 Swabbie Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 8 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Thanks for the warm entry Just freed myself out of war captivity and set sail to La Rochelle to assume a new command Just want to become a feeling of '43 - '45 with GWX 3.0, before starting a new carrier when being sunk. However, this was the first boat I lost during this carieer. Everybody should be given a 2nd chance. This time I didn't touch a ship when a task group was close. Radar on the enemy escorts was quite hard. Just tryed to get ahead of the convoy, wich failed serveral times - thanks to very nice weather and radar. When I tryed to catch a look at the convoy's formation and juicy targets on surface, they got me anytime with radar (moderate visibility ~10km with 16k mod). Perhaps it's better while good visibility. The radar seem to have a radius of 8-9km, more for aircraft. After arriving at the convoy's top I went down to 240m and sacked(?) into the convoy, but ended up in a bad position and was able to fire only one eel. Luckly I hit the tanker and he was forced to stop. Then I finished him in an end run but was catched up by a plane again after the sinking (91% pressure hull). Decided to carry on. Sunk two more ore carriers after managing to slip twords one of the lead escorts and the side guard during heavy fog. It was very close, nearly the complete front of the convoy was ASDIC shielded. Even my only acustic eel wich sunk the lead escort didn't prevent them from building a new line of defense. I stopped penetrating the convoy at about 200 km to the canadian cost in expectation of more air support for the convoy defense. Went home and again had a peace and joyful little summer cruise in the biscaya without any allied aircraft I forced me to observe the air above me before surfacing, this time. Safed my men after finishing the tanker. Good piece of advice Has anybody developed a tactic to get information about the convoy's formation and the desireable targets in it without getting picked up by destroyers radar? Observing it via attack scope while submerged didn't work good for me, because of speed and noise issues.