Basic convoy tactics

[Kpt. Weyprecht]

Thanks for the advice. I'll definitely try all that next time I stumble on a convoy. Trying to avoid getting smashed on surface by the escort which turns ont to mora than a destroyer. I was wondering why he didn't even bother with any attack run or depth charges... Well, it was a Southampton
In the meantime Franz Ressel in his U-31 after a shakedown prewar patrol raced through the channel before the Brits joined the war, and scored over 40t in his first patrol. No convoys yet.

Originally Posted by Kpt. Weyprecht

Thanks for the advice. I'll definitely try all that next time I stumble on a convoy. Trying to avoid getting smashed on surface by the escort which turns ont to mora than a destroyer. I was wondering why he didn't even bother with any attack run or depth charges... Well, it was a Southampton
In the meantime Franz Ressel in his U-31 after a shakedown prewar patrol raced through the channel before the Brits joined the war, and scored over 40t in his first patrol. No convoys yet.

Southampton class warship is not a destroyer, it's light Cruiser. So cruisers as battleships did not had any depth-charges.

[Melonfish]

wow, lucked out if the escord is a cruiser you can stay under and torp what you want whilst he vainly tries to waste you without sonar or DC's

[Rhodes]

With GWX 3.0, due to the enviroment made by OLC, that already was in his mods, you can perform good night surface attacks! And the key is, has said, pacience and getting to a good firing position! If not, let the convoy go and retry.
I manage to do good surface night attacks and try to position myself at 90º angle or do the 45, to get inside the escorts. Also, I try to make a run after the torpedos are fired, if not, dive deep to the centre of the convoy and choose a route away from it, evading escort if need! If you fire the els from a distance of 3km you might no be detected and can escape at surface (of course, this is before the radar...)

By what I have read, and I also read teddy suren's biography and the is last voyage book, several things that happend in real life would and will not happen in the game. He talks of escorts passing by the u-boat very near, in pitch dark nights! In game, well it's a another story!