Wipe out the whole convoy (how to)

tater · 06-14-07, 12:30 PM

^^^ yeah, I've never used them and won't.

btaft · 06-14-07, 12:45 PM

I don't see the point of the decoys either. When I was actively playing, I found the DD persecution pretty weak anyways, so the decoys were not needed

SteamWake · 06-14-07, 12:46 PM

Uhhh disable stabilized view ?

Curiously enough My crew ran accross a small convoy last night and radioed in the contact.

We recieved back a message I had not seen before. "Engage escorts, other assets will be assigned to merchants" or something of that sort.

Fair enough we thought and lined up a shot on the lead escort who of course changed course just after we fired. Evidently he was oblivious to the torpedo in the water and did not pursue us. So in order to get his attention we sunk one of the merchants.

That got his attention. We pulled off a lucky head on shot beneath his keel as he closed on us and down he went (one torpedo ??

).

The trailing escorts were now on their way to see what happened and I assume to try to sink us. But they were a ways off so we fired off a few more torps into the merchants.

All of a sudden some merchants towards the rear exploded into flames and began to list. Holy smokes ! Look ! Allied aircraft were bombing the merchants ! and doing a pretty good job.

We turned our attention to the now closing and harried DD's caught one broadside while he was concentrating on the air attacks and couldent get out of the way in time. We could see his AA guns blazing away untill BOOM... They stopped dead in the water making for an easy second shot and down they went.

The third tender was a sub chaser which we fired at least 4 torps at and all scoooted beneath him with no detonations !

All shots were set as shallow as possible.

Took a few stern shots and sank a few more merchants and the aircraft finished off the stragglers. At this point all that was left was the chaser ( mission listed as incomplete ). So we set off after him.

Much to my supprise he was high tailing it out of the area forcing us to surface and take off after him at flank in broad daylight.

After quite some time (and fuel) we caught up with him and took him down with the deck gun. (Strangly enough they dident bother to fire back :hmm: ).

Thats how we destroyed an entire convoy.

06-14-07, 12:30 PM	#1
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	^^^ yeah, I've never used them and won't.

06-14-07, 12:45 PM	#2
btaft Soundman Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 147 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	I don't see the point of the decoys either. When I was actively playing, I found the DD persecution pretty weak anyways, so the decoys were not needed

06-14-07, 12:46 PM	#3
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Uhhh disable stabilized view ? Curiously enough My crew ran accross a small convoy last night and radioed in the contact. We recieved back a message I had not seen before. "Engage escorts, other assets will be assigned to merchants" or something of that sort. Fair enough we thought and lined up a shot on the lead escort who of course changed course just after we fired. Evidently he was oblivious to the torpedo in the water and did not pursue us. So in order to get his attention we sunk one of the merchants. That got his attention. We pulled off a lucky head on shot beneath his keel as he closed on us and down he went (one torpedo ?? ). The trailing escorts were now on their way to see what happened and I assume to try to sink us. But they were a ways off so we fired off a few more torps into the merchants. All of a sudden some merchants towards the rear exploded into flames and began to list. Holy smokes ! Look ! Allied aircraft were bombing the merchants ! and doing a pretty good job. We turned our attention to the now closing and harried DD's caught one broadside while he was concentrating on the air attacks and couldent get out of the way in time. We could see his AA guns blazing away untill BOOM... They stopped dead in the water making for an easy second shot and down they went. The third tender was a sub chaser which we fired at least 4 torps at and all scoooted beneath him with no detonations ! All shots were set as shallow as possible. Took a few stern shots and sank a few more merchants and the aircraft finished off the stragglers. At this point all that was left was the chaser ( mission listed as incomplete ). So we set off after him. Much to my supprise he was high tailing it out of the area forcing us to surface and take off after him at flank in broad daylight. After quite some time (and fuel) we caught up with him and took him down with the deck gun. (Strangly enough they dident bother to fire back :hmm: ). Thats how we destroyed an entire convoy.