Enemy Subs

CaptainMattJ. · 07-01-10, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Lonecrow

I've encountered my first enemy sub!! I can't ID it though it doesn't allow me to. This is in British waters! So I've loaded and reloaded and tried to take this thing down with torpedos a few times now and every time they turn at the last second and it misses. Anyone manage to take down an enemy sub? Also anyone ever manage to take down a ship by ramming it?

NEVEr try to take out a ship by RAMMING it. i have 37% hull integrity right now cause i accidentally hit a merchant in time compression. that means if i suffer 37 percent more damage im going down.

gimpy117 · 07-01-10, 11:31 PM

get the deck gun out...that works better

Lonecrow · 07-02-10, 03:57 PM

No I usually expend all of my ammo and I'm done.. the flak gun doesn't change ammo and it doesn't do any damage to ships.. Would be fun if there were actual life boats and we could gun those down too

Ok maybe kinda mean but hey its a computer game. But the flak gun does NOT automatically fire when I get them to man them (both) and there are planes stalking me. They don't fire at all..

tat501 · 05-25-15, 12:51 AM

Just started a new Open Horizons II campaign with real navigation and I'm in the Baltic off Danzig and there's a sub nearby. I'm trying to track a Polish minelayer and a destroyer which are patrolling nearby (weather is clear, no wind, no waves - dangerous to surface at daytime). Keep getting a sonar contact but my hydrophone cant ID it. Sound is a faint twin screw turbine though. I haven't properly located it yet though because I don't want to waste my effort doing a full four bearing track of it and then lose the more dangerous contacts...

In the past I've usually found engaging them pointless because as soon as you open up with the deck gun they'll submerge (unless you get them with a lucky shot early on) and once they're under you've got no chance with the torpedoes.

KleineUboot · 05-27-15, 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by tat501

In the past I've usually found engaging them pointless because as soon as you open up with the deck gun they'll submerge (unless you get them with a lucky shot early on) and once they're under you've got no chance with the torpedoes.

You can easily destroy enemy sub with stealthy torpedo attack from periscope depth. However, you must use only electric torpedoes against them because steam torpedoes are easily detected, and enemy subs can evade them easily because of their small size.

SeaStalker · 06-06-15, 08:12 PM

I'm playing a Open Horizons II campaign as well. Sailing into the North Sea, past Norway, is when I noticed I was being followed by a sub marked in red on the map. It didn't attack me the whole time I was surfaced which made it seem as though it was another u-boat sent to help me patrol around Scapa Flow. Once I was visually close enough it looked like a British Triton Class. Though I'm no expert on British subs. Anyhow, I finally decide to sink it. I circled around to face it, still surfaced. He passed about quite close to me, less than 100m. The torpedo instantly killed it. In the log it noted that I sunk a U class sub. I have to admit I'm still not sure if it was a enemy or a friendly. I suspect it was enemy.

07-01-10, 11:31 PM	#2
gimpy117 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Kalamazoo, MI Posts: 3,243 Downloads: 108 Uploads: 0	get the deck gun out...that works better __________________ Member of the Subsim Zombie Army

07-02-10, 03:57 PM	#3
Lonecrow Seaman Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 32 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	No I usually expend all of my ammo and I'm done.. the flak gun doesn't change ammo and it doesn't do any damage to ships.. Would be fun if there were actual life boats and we could gun those down too Ok maybe kinda mean but hey its a computer game. But the flak gun does NOT automatically fire when I get them to man them (both) and there are planes stalking me. They don't fire at all..

05-25-15, 12:51 AM	#4
tat501 Helmsman Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: London Posts: 108 Downloads: 275 Uploads: 0	Just started a new Open Horizons II campaign with real navigation and I'm in the Baltic off Danzig and there's a sub nearby. I'm trying to track a Polish minelayer and a destroyer which are patrolling nearby (weather is clear, no wind, no waves - dangerous to surface at daytime). Keep getting a sonar contact but my hydrophone cant ID it. Sound is a faint twin screw turbine though. I haven't properly located it yet though because I don't want to waste my effort doing a full four bearing track of it and then lose the more dangerous contacts... In the past I've usually found engaging them pointless because as soon as you open up with the deck gun they'll submerge (unless you get them with a lucky shot early on) and once they're under you've got no chance with the torpedoes.

06-06-15, 08:12 PM	#6
SeaStalker Swabbie Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Mid-West, USA Posts: 13 Downloads: 41 Uploads: 0	I'm playing a Open Horizons II campaign as well. Sailing into the North Sea, past Norway, is when I noticed I was being followed by a sub marked in red on the map. It didn't attack me the whole time I was surfaced which made it seem as though it was another u-boat sent to help me patrol around Scapa Flow. Once I was visually close enough it looked like a British Triton Class. Though I'm no expert on British subs. Anyhow, I finally decide to sink it. I circled around to face it, still surfaced. He passed about quite close to me, less than 100m. The torpedo instantly killed it. In the log it noted that I sunk a U class sub. I have to admit I'm still not sure if it was a enemy or a friendly. I suspect it was enemy.