Strange Allied Tactics

[UnterseeBoogeyMan]

Originally Posted by TarJak

Ahh the frustrations of running submerged. This is why RL Kaleuns liked making night time surface attacks. There was no risk of being heard cos the DD's couldn't really hear a surfaced submarine very well unless it was real close and on diesels.

The problem with the game is that unless the escorts have no radar and you approach in poor visibility you will get spotted before you get close enough to make an attack run. The beauty is that you can also exploit some of the weaknesses that are inherent in the game but were not there in RL.

There are threads which cover the hunt and approach but what I try to do is get in front of the convoy and come in at an angle at dead slow 1 kt until they come onto my position. Unless I'm in a very gung ho mood I never go faster than 2kt when in an attack where escorts are around.

That's ussually my strategy, in this particular case I was 3-4 kms away when they turned 45 degrees to port. That meant I had to do a 180 underwater. The good choice, and the conversative choice, would have been to let them go by, surface, try the attack approach again on the surface. I always wondered about that 1/3 speed anyway. Ussually when it's 1/3 no silent running or ahead standard silent running, they make a bee-line straight for me. This time, they were just amped up looking around. Very interesting. I better have acoustic torpedoes when radar rolls around.

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by UnterseeBoogeyMan

That's ussually my strategy, in this particular case I was 3-4 kms away when they turned 45 degrees to port. That meant I had to do a 180 underwater. The good choice, and the conversative choice, would have been to let them go by, surface, try the attack approach again on the surface. I always wondered about that 1/3 speed anyway. Ussually when it's 1/3 no silent running or ahead standard silent running, they make a bee-line straight for me. This time, they were just amped up looking around. Very interesting. I better have acoustic torpedoes when radar rolls around.

I would have done the end around as many Kaleuns would have had to in RL. If they found they were in a bad position they could not usually improve it by making enough noise to be detected. In GWX if you are not quiet you end up dead.