Can't Find the Convoys

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by KeptinCranky

Dunno Jim, not that I'm aware of, I HAVE however found out that intercepting a convoy at 50 or 100 km from it's initial contact report tends to give bad results, trying for 60km or 110 works better...

They tend to zig or zag every 50km or so... it's not set in stone yet but I've noticed that trend....

That's how I understand it too

[Huncowboy]

Originally Posted by Elmer Kosterman

Reports involving positions in latitude and longitude are for immersion only, and don't correspond to real contacts in-game. If you're still interested, you can do a conversion on this website: www.ubootwaffe.net/quadrant.cgi.

Even with the GWX? Thanks for the help!

[sharkbit]

Thanks for the advice everyone!

I finished the patrol without anymore convoy reports, but managed to sink 3 more ships on the way home for a total of 8 on this patrol. Sorry, can't remember my total tonnage-I'm at work now and don't have it handy.

I did 2 booby things on this patrol:
1.) I fired a torpedo at nothing. Cruising along, in the middle of nowhere, I went to hit the + sign on my number pad to increase my TC and hit ENTER by mistake and off went a eel into the nothingness..... .

2.) I ran into the pier at Wilhelmshaven coming home.
I had my plotted course too close to home and the time compression too high, too close to port, and add a little bit of distraction and before I could hit backspace to pause....BAAAAM-WTF. I start getting damage reports. I zoom in and see that I hit the docks. My hull integrity was down to 37%.
So I cheated. I had saved a little bit ago while I was a couple hundred kms from home and did a redo.
Of course in real life, I probably would have lost my command and been sentenced to permanent latrine/bilge cleaner-outer and barnacle scraper.

Oh well. I'm looking forward to my next patrol. I'm going to try to get GWX2.1 and SubCommander3 mods installed first later on today. Hopefully, all will go well.

[Able72]

Almost on topic here.

Is there a mod out there, that is GWX 2.1 compatible, that will make sure we get a position report on all convoys that spawn and will renew and repost that convoy's position every so often? Say once an hour or so? Regardless of where on the map they are?

Just wondering because I would realy like the opportunity to take on a carrier fleet and drop a flat top in a career.

Not to mention that convoys are just plain fun. By comparison, single ship encounters feel like practice. Yes, they are fun in their own way, but not really much of a challenge to them, especially single merchants.

On a related tangent, the biggest ship I've encountered to date, through almost a dozen careers (mind you none of those have progressed passed about 1941) is a measly 10,000 tons. Are there any bigger boats out there? If so, where should I hunt for these big fish so to speak.

[Able72]

Originally Posted by sharkbit

Thanks for the advice everyone!

I finished the patrol without anymore convoy reports, but managed to sink 3 more ships on the way home for a total of 8 on this patrol. Sorry, can't remember my total tonnage-I'm at work now and don't have it handy.

I did 2 booby things on this patrol:
1.) I fired a torpedo at nothing. Cruising along, in the middle of nowhere, I went to hit the + sign on my number pad to increase my TC and hit ENTER by mistake and off went a eel into the nothingness..... .

2.) I ran into the pier at Wilhelmshaven coming home.
I had my plotted course too close to home and the time compression too high, too close to port, and add a little bit of distraction and before I could hit backspace to pause....BAAAAM-WTF. I start getting damage reports. I zoom in and see that I hit the docks. My hull integrity was down to 37%.
So I cheated. I had saved a little bit ago while I was a couple hundred kms from home and did a redo.
Of course in real life, I probably would have lost my command and been sentenced to permanent latrine/bilge cleaner-outer and barnacle scraper.

Oh well. I'm looking forward to my next patrol. I'm going to try to get GWX2.1 and SubCommander3 mods installed first later on today. Hopefully, all will go well.

In real life your crew would have mutineed rather than hit the dock. So I call it a wash and fair play

[gord96]

I always find convoys in the Irish Sea! Perhaps because its so small. As a loyal Type II/D kaleun I find thats the best spot to ensure finding a convoy. And at 70-100m in most spots thats plenty of room for the Type II to hide

Be sure if you take out the 'canoe' to talk BdU into letting you take the 6th torpedo. It helps.

[FIREWALL]

In the movie Das Boot IIRC they only sank 1 tanker thru the whole movie.

[von hally]

lo guys

thought id jump in here....doesnt anyone else get a second and third convoy report???

ive seen myself mis -judge the intersection point and lose the convoy...only for an updated position to be given...therefore being able to judge the new intersect point. move in and start my attack.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by von hally

lo guys

thought id jump in here....doesnt anyone else get a second and third convoy report???

ive seen myself mis -judge the intersection point and lose the convoy...only for an updated position to be given...therefore being able to judge the new intersect point. move in and start my attack.

Yeah....that should be a frequent event

[Able72]

Originally Posted by Able72

Almost on topic here.

Is there a mod out there, that is GWX 2.1 compatible, that will make sure we get a position report on all convoys that spawn and will renew and repost that convoy's position every so often? Say once an hour or so? Regardless of where on the map they are?

Just wondering because I would realy like the opportunity to take on a carrier fleet and drop a flat top in a career.

Not to mention that convoys are just plain fun. By comparison, single ship encounters feel like practice. Yes, they are fun in their own way, but not really much of a challenge to them, especially single merchants.

On a related tangent, the biggest ship I've encountered to date, through almost a dozen careers (mind you none of those have progressed passed about 1941) is a measly 10,000 tons. Are there any bigger boats out there? If so, where should I hunt for these big fish so to speak.

maybe got lost on previous page, anyone know of one?

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by Able72

Almost on topic here.
On a related tangent, the biggest ship I've encountered to date, through almost a dozen careers (mind you none of those have progressed passed about 1941) is a measly 10,000 tons. Are there any bigger boats out there? If so, where should I hunt for these big fish so to speak.

Excluding warships of any kinds (which range from 10,000 - 50,000) there's a few merchants that are bigger catches.

Whale factory ship: 11,507
Large Tanker: 11,335
Large Troop Ship: 24,000
HMT Aquitanaia: 40,000
Ceramic-type Ocean Liner: 14,000

[Bosje]

make sure you are near grid BE53 (is it BE53?) early morning may 27th 1941

Force H from gibraltar followed by several battlecruisers/battleships pass through there.

I was there on my 2nd patrol in a new career, sunk the ark royal, damaged a renown class BB which slowed down and once the destroyers had gone, I sunk the BB too

about 70k tons of warships for me on that patrol, lovely

[difool2]

Originally Posted by Able72

Almost on topic here.

Is there a mod out there, that is GWX 2.1 compatible, that will make sure we get a position report on all convoys that spawn and will renew and repost that convoy's position every so often? Say once an hour or so? Regardless of where on the map they are?

Just wondering because I would realy like the opportunity to take on a carrier fleet and drop a flat top in a career.

There was the so-called Spy Satellite mod which did this, but it hasn't been updated for any of the recent mods. Do a search if you like, I think there was one for vanilla.

[gord96]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

In the movie Das Boot IIRC they only sank 1 tanker thru the whole movie.

i thought they sank 3. the 2 they hear sinking when they crash dive and then they finish off the tanker when they surface.:hmm:

[Able72]

Originally Posted by gord96

i thought they sank 3. the 2 they hear sinking when they crash dive and then they finish off the tanker when they surface.:hmm:

Just watched the directors cut this evening. 3 hours 29 minutes, lovely piece, ashame what happened to Johanne though. Anyway, yeah, it was 3 from what I saw. at the very least it was two. The one tanker they finished off and the one they heard the bulkeheads collapsing on.