GWX-ueber destroyers spot me anywhere???

[Jimbuna]

I always await the convoy from a position ahead of it if possible. As you have already realised the chances of detection by them especially whilst you are surfaced are high to say the least.
I try to sus out their search pattern in advance and skirt around them during the day/night in preparation for a dawn/dusk attack.
The only time I'll approach them on the surface is at night and even then I'm 'decks awash'
The escorts in GWX IMO are the challenge this games been missing for so long

[LeafsFan]

Imo the key points to a sucessful night surface attack are

1 decks awash.
2 slowest speed feasible.
3 well timed attack.
4. high seas
5 a dark night

as you have no control over 4 and 5 night surface attacks are not always feasible, nor should they be.

HB

[AVGWarhawk]

@AS

I can honestly say I do not have destroyers detecting me at night. (1941) I do not run at the convoy during the day at all. Night time is the right time. I shadow waaaayyyy off. General course heading and lay my course to intercept at night. If I'm so lucky to get in the path of a convoy during the day, it is all done submerged.

Night time attack I can get within 500m of a destroyer if the weather is not the greatest. Placid waters not so close. Maybe 1000m off!

The warships are not super-uber. They are very real IMHO.

Convoys can be pentetrated and dispatched in GWX. I toy with them all the time. I find the side that the warships are not on Send out all the torps I can and dive away. Resume the shadowing from far away! Remember, you really are not going to set off torpedos and blast around a convoy loading more....just did not happen. Working the convoy can take days

[LeafsFan]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

@AS

I can honestly say I do not have destroyers detecting me at night. (1941) I do not run at the convoy during the day at all. Night time is the right time. I shadow waaaayyyy off. General course heading and lay my course to intercept at night. If I'm so lucky to get in the path of a convoy during the day, it is all done submerged.

Night time attack I can get within 500m of a destroyer if the weather is not the greatest. Placid waters not so close. Maybe 1000m off!

The warships are not super-uber. They are very real IMHO.

Convoys can be pentetrated and dispatched in GWX. I toy with them all the time. I find the side that the warships are not on Send out all the torps I can and dive away. Resume the shadowing from far away! Remember, you really are not going to set off torpedos and blast around a convoy loading more....just did not happen. Working the convoy can take days

Good advice here.

HB