advice

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by cobalt

Any advice on convoy attacks during bad weather?

As myself and everyons said its risky, but if your very patient, plot your positiions very carefuly, and recheck them, and after you done checking, recheck them again, and generaly being very deliberate, its doable.

But the reality is, your chances of gettting anymore then 1 ship out of that convoy is very remote.

If its clear skys, and only rough seas, you can take a shot at 2000 meters and score a hit. But you'd do yourself alot of favours by setting your torpedo depth to 0, or 1 meters, and using only an impact pistol. Waves in general can trigger a magnetic warhead, so don't use them in rough seas. Whats more the draft on every ship is constantly changing. So if your shooting a fish at 5 depth at a liberty, it could go right under the liberty if he rides up on a wave. So run your fish in on the surface. (not you, your torpedo's)

In poor vislibity, your chances of scoring a hit are really low. I pulled it off once, (see pick below) but only because i had 2 other ships pass through my periscope to get a good estimate on their course. In bad weather, a ship comes in and out of view at 500 meters in about 5 to 10 seconds.

This ship in the picture below was the third ship in a column, and was also the last ship in that column. and i was about 400 meters away. There was a very real risk of being rammed. Espeically after i hit that ship, as the whole convoy is going to go evasive. In this situationi i immediatly crash dived. Even if he was the first or second ship, once the convoy knows your there, they start going evasive, so your chances of hitting another ship are nill.