One of those patrols again.

[Patboot]

Weather god hates me, can't shoot for nothing.
I should just pack it in and go home.

[Bothersome]

Yeah, I'm on my forth day of hurricane Allcussit.

If you track a slow merchant, you can still make the kill by going towards it and leading it slightly. If the weather doesn't sink it first, you can usually get a solution on it through the scope. By the time you get to it, you'll know quite a bit about the target.

If it's a convoy, just use extra caution for escorts. They will probably go down before you get to the convoy.

Very bad weather has a way of removing the weaker ships that weren't up to the travel.

[Patboot]

Yeahm, sound dunce can't find a firecracker in his ear, I have to do it,
Visual range is....400m.......best be ready or....bounce the torp.

wargrarble.

[Weiss Pinguin]

In these situations I get as deep as I can, crank the TC down to 16-32x and go for a run/watch a movie/pass as much time as possible to let the weather clear out.

Not very realistic maybe, but hey

[YukonJack_AK]

Honestly... When the weather goes to hell, I just go deep and tell the crew to catch up on their sleep. No since in slogging it through waves that eat conning-towers and visibility so poor you can't see your target till it's running you over! We'll find something after the storm passes...

[Fader_Berg]

Go 20 meters deep and wait for a target to plot by hydrophone.

[sergei]

I just lost a career by running right into the middle of a destroyer task force in weather like this.

Next time I run submerged until it clears.

[Jimbuna]

I save the game then reboot the system and load the save.....letting the game throw an imaginart dice to determine the weather conditions.

[Immelman]

Just because the weather is lousy doesn't mean the war stops. Simply remain submerged and track your targets via hydrophone as already mentioned.

If its a single contact you are in luck, you can track it to triangulate its position and then get a workable firing solution without using your scope I did that in my last patrol and it worked! Had I wanted to find the ship otherwise I never would have unless I accidentally rammed it.

I sunk a small merchant fired a TI at 900m he never knew what hit him. I was able to get close enough to spot the fire burning on his deck. I surfaced and sped towards him to see what the heck I shot at having no idea since it was litterally a shot in the dark.

Here is what I found through the fog Just in time too because he was going down!



Hydrophone triangulation works people! There is thread on this forum showing exactly how to do it. I'll try to find the link and post it here.

[Kemper Boyd]

Last time I was on a patrol in lousy weather, I got a convoy report on the radio and went to hunt it down. Dived for a sound check, got something, surfaced 500 meters from a whaling ship well inside the convoy. To port was another whaling ship, behind me a tanker. Behind the first whaling ship, an ore transport.

Emptied the tubes, evaded the hapless corvette escorts who didnt see me until it was far too late. Attacked two more times within a few hours, came home with a total of 58000 tons sunk.

[maillemaker]

I have found it fun to charge through convoys in bad weather, watching the shadows come out of the murk, just like Werner describes it in Iron Coffins.

I live in fear of a BB or something coming out of the murk, though.

Steve