I got the AA to work!!!

[thruster]

cheers shmall.
i know this is supposed to be a subsim, but aircraft had such a huge impact on the campaign.

whilst i agree with the odds being against you, i'd like to think that even reasonably accurate flak fire MAY at least make an air attack against you less effective.

i think of it like this, if you were the captn of the boat and you couldnt dive it for whatever reason, youd deploy your flak and expect it to do something.

Originally Posted by thruster

i think of it like this, if you were the captn of the boat and you couldnt dive it for whatever reason, youd deploy your flak and expect it to do something.

yes you would....but it wouldn't do much, sorry to say

I too use my flak too, sometime my self and somethimes get the flak gunners to use it, but mostly i crash dive, as most uboats did

I used to hate the way SH3 and SH4 could hold off masses of planes with their pop guns lol

prefer SH5 to that....although I should add, I wish the damn aircraft would attack more forcing me to crash dive or fight at least lol

[Commie]

Originally Posted by thruster

cheers shmall.
i know this is supposed to be a subsim, but aircraft had such a huge impact on the campaign.

whilst i agree with the odds being against you, i'd like to think that even reasonably accurate flak fire MAY at least make an air attack against you less effective.

i think of it like this, if you were the captn of the boat and you couldnt dive it for whatever reason, youd deploy your flak and expect it to do something.

Well I read somewhere that the U-Boats shot down 212 aircraft while losing 168 subs to air attack though I think the figures should be the other way round as they would be closer to the ones on uboat.net which has a partial list where they mention 120 aircraft shot down or crashed under fire from u-boats while 250 u-boats sunk by aircraft; some of the U-boats having been credited with 3 kills.

So it should be quite possible to have a successful dual with aircraft if desperate measures need to be taken.

Originally Posted by Commie

some of the U-boats having been credited with 3 kills.

yeah that sounds about right, I have one kill so far
I migh manage 3 kills by the end of 1943 if I'm lucky lol

Originally Posted by Commie

So it should be quite possible to have a successful dual with aircraft if desperate measures need to be taken.

Unfortunatly, I've yet to be remotly close to a desparate situation in SH5. I think thats half the issue with this release.

[mcarlsonus]

The ONLY time I've had to take aircraft into consideration in SH5 is when doing, "Historical Missions" or MP! NEVER in standard Campaign mode have I been forced to do ANYTHING due to aircraft. SO, in the standard game, even if Dieter won't man the flak guns, who cares?