Credit for sinkings, what's your approach

[raymond6751]

You have premature detonations and torpedoes hitting land sometimes. Also, if a ship is hit once, it often keeps going damaged.

You may have damaged some that just sailed on with the convoy.

[asr]

Originally Posted by smilinicon

your staus report won't update for at least two hours, so you might receive credit after that amount of time. Don't sweat it, if you see the message, you got the kill. Early war is pretty easy, so if you are having trouble at that time, it would help to improve your tactics. Also, explosions do not always mean a hit. If fuel economy is an issue, you are cruising too fast.

sounds like you are being "too agressive"! Be more sneaky, act - don't react.

You are totally right. I'm just a noob comander so I need time and practice to develop proper tactics

Originally Posted by raymond6751

You have premature detonations and torpedoes hitting land sometimes. Also, if a ship is hit once, it often keeps going damaged.

You may have damaged some that just sailed on with the convoy.

So the question remains. Do you shoot 2 torps per target, or stay near surface to confirm hits?

I'm having real problems to stay even near the surface because of the escorts. They almost force me to stay below 150 as I said. How do you manage that? There is also the pinging. I try to present the smallest profile of my ship to them but doesn't seem to do much, they easily locate me.