U-505 Single Mission

[Puster Bill]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Try not to raise your periscope.....work out the locations from your hydrophones

I don't. The stated goal of the mission is to sink the Guadalcanal. My mission is solely to survive.

I've tried a couple of different strategies, but none seem to work.

I've tried creeping around near PD at silent running. No dice, they nail you quickly with active sonar, even if you try to show them a minimum profile (which is hard, because submerged the Type IXC has the manuevering capability of a supertanker being propelled by oars.

I've tried an immediate crash dive down to depths that I would never take a career boat (like 240 meters), followed by course changes, and silent running (not necessarily in that order).

Just about the only thing I haven't tried recently is to actually try and take out the escorts. It's folly, though, because by the time you enter the data (a mere 'guess' though) in the TDC, they've already found you and are starting an attack run.

Probably the best you can hope for is to get a lucky shot at the CVE and to keep from being destroyed before it sinks.

I'll keep trying, though...

[IrischKapitan]

I managed to finish this mission in a XXI. Fired two homer torps on the DD's. 4 torps long distance shot at the carrier, first homer torp missed, d'oh. Second one sent the DD exloring the bottom of the atlantic.

Dived to 260m, DD lost contact with me a few hairy minutes later 3 of 4 of the long range shots hit home....

Mission finished.

[Puster Bill]

Originally Posted by IrischKapitan

I managed to finish this mission in a XXI. Fired two homer torps on the DD's. 4 torps long distance shot at the carrier, first homer torp missed, d'oh. Second one sent the DD exloring the bottom of the atlantic.

Dived to 260m, DD lost contact with me a few hairy minutes later 3 of 4 of the long range shots hit home....

Mission finished.

Great job

Now do it in a Type IXC.