Engaging Convoy

peabody · 02-16-08, 01:20 PM

I need any suggestions for evading (spelling?) detection when attacking a convoy. I am at 165 ft, "rig for silent running"-ON, "All Stop", positioned where I have calculated , with my limited knowledge, where I think they are coming through. And almost every time I get detected before I even do anything. Am I too close? I sit quietly and then get messages on Warship closing fast or something to that effect. So I use the external camera to see what is actually happening, so I can learn what the messages from the sonar are actually telling me and I see destroyers coming directly toward me full speed, not searching just straight line at my position. Next come DC, so I hit Flank and head for the center of the convoy to try to confuse them. Then change direction often, usually toward a destroyer that just DCed where he thought I was, and a lot of times it works, but not always of course.
Here's a funny side note: I was sailing along and suddenly my boat stopped dead in the water. Figured I must have taken some damage-No damage. I go to full stop then back the 'ahead slow'-nothing. I click the button to follow plotted course-Nothing. I then notice "rig for silent running is on" so I check the crew. I had left "rig for silent running' and 'battle stations' on and did some time compression to get to my next location and the ENTIRE crew was sound asleep!!

Good thing I wasn't in WWII Japan may have won it.

Peabody

02-16-08, 01:20 PM	#1
peabody Admiral Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: New York State, USA Posts: 2,390 Downloads: 126 Uploads: 7	Engaging Convoy I need any suggestions for evading (spelling?) detection when attacking a convoy. I am at 165 ft, "rig for silent running"-ON, "All Stop", positioned where I have calculated , with my limited knowledge, where I think they are coming through. And almost every time I get detected before I even do anything. Am I too close? I sit quietly and then get messages on Warship closing fast or something to that effect. So I use the external camera to see what is actually happening, so I can learn what the messages from the sonar are actually telling me and I see destroyers coming directly toward me full speed, not searching just straight line at my position. Next come DC, so I hit Flank and head for the center of the convoy to try to confuse them. Then change direction often, usually toward a destroyer that just DCed where he thought I was, and a lot of times it works, but not always of course. Here's a funny side note: I was sailing along and suddenly my boat stopped dead in the water. Figured I must have taken some damage-No damage. I go to full stop then back the 'ahead slow'-nothing. I click the button to follow plotted course-Nothing. I then notice "rig for silent running is on" so I check the crew. I had left "rig for silent running' and 'battle stations' on and did some time compression to get to my next location and the ENTIRE crew was sound asleep!! Good thing I wasn't in WWII Japan may have won it. Peabody