How do you sink your enemy convoys ?

[Lafferty]

I wait till dark then i go in on the surface and use my torps and my deck gun. Now if i see any escorts then i take care of them first.

[danurve]

I like my spider and pounce method.

If that doesn't work, the words seat of my pants comes to mind.

[VolvicCH]

perpendicular to convoy course, pick 4 targets, wait for front escort to pass, fire 2 steamers at targets farthest away then 2 electric at 2 closest ones. Wait for detonation, go to flank and 40 meters. when at 30 meters go slow and execute 45/90 degree turn and stay submerged untill im sure there noone on my tail.




Have a nice day

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

i go between the convoy line's and fire all tube's. then dive to reload.
when reloaded and the escorts havnt spot me i repeat the same procedure

[Hitman]

If I have conducted the correct approach I should be between the lines and moving in the same direction of the convoy, albeit slowly (Let them catch me). So I can shoot two salvoes of two torpedos at a 90º and 270º Gyro Angle and hit two targets. Rear torpedo tube comes not in question because with manual targeting it is too difficult to compensate the parallax without an accurate range reading so I follow UBoat Commander's Handbook advice and don't use it in running fights

If I failed in my approach or the convoy zigged, I tend to look for the 90º AOB and shoot a salvo at two ships.

P.S. I wish convoys had a bit more separation between lines and escrots were farther away to allow more real-life tactics, but as they are in SH3 (Specially the escorts, because GWX corrects very well the spacing for large convoys ) you usually find that browning shots from outside the escrot screen work reasonably well :hmm:

[Canovaro]

Originally Posted by Hitman

If I have conducted the correct approach I should be between the lines and moving in the same direction of the convoy, albeit slowly (Let them catch me). So I can shoot two salvoes of two torpedos at a 90º and 270º Gyro Angle and hit two targets. Rear torpedo tube comes not in question because with manual targeting it is too difficult to compensate the parallax without an accurate range reading so I follow UBoat Commander's Handbook advice and don't use it in running fights

Sounds interesting. You sure have more time to take a shot this way. What do you do after you have launched the torpedoes? Dive in the same direction? Or take a turn and get out of the direction?

[Jimbuna]

From ahead and perpendicular

[Maraz]

Originally Posted by Hitman

If I have conducted the correct approach I should be between the lines and moving in the same direction of the convoy, albeit slowly (Let them catch me). So I can shoot two salvoes of two torpedos at a 90º and 270º Gyro Angle and hit two targets.

Thanks Hitman, great information from you, as usual. Actually I would not feel very confortable firing with this large gyro angles, I even read (somewhere in SHIII documentation) that in early war gyro angle should be smaller than +- 60. Did you try this kind of shooting in SH3?

Thanks

Maraz