[Help!] It's my first day.

THE_MASK · 06-05-08, 11:06 PM

My advice is to forget that training mission . Go to the mods section and downlaod the RSRDC mod where you will get loads of war patrol missions and practice with those . Cheers .

Jerik · 06-05-08, 11:28 PM

Awesome, I went and installed it, will get to work.

Thanks!

Frame57 · 06-05-08, 11:46 PM

I found the single missions to not be a great training ground. Simply because I found myself in a position i would not have approached a convoy to begin with. In the campaign if you mess it up you can start again. What works for me especially with a convoy or a task force once I have some intel via radar, sonar or radio. I knuckle around the convoy well past the radar ranges of the escorts. Place my boat in a good intercept position and I get under a thermal layer at all stop and go quiet. I let the escorts pass then it is up to PD and pick a nice juicy merchant. Sneaking past escorts is doable but there are some tricks to it and like a magician we cant give them all away, but you have one good startegy here I gave you to start. Part of the fun is learning by trial and error.

Jerik · 06-06-08, 02:34 PM

New question:

I have two periscopes, the observation scope and the attack scope. I seem to be able to do TDC calculations and fire torps from either, however, so the distinction is lost on me. What is the purpose of two scopes, and when should I use one over the other?

THE_MASK · 06-06-08, 02:47 PM

I never use the obs . The attack scope is skinnier and harder to spot and the obs scope can look right up where the attack cannot .

Quillan · 06-06-08, 05:05 PM

If you're running Trigger Maru Overhauled, the observation scope is brighter than the attack scope, because the bigger head lets more light in. I use the attack scope during the day and the observation scope at night. In the stock game the only differences are magnification level and maximum angle of elevation.

Red Devil · 06-06-08, 05:22 PM

When I first installed SH4, I started a war patrol on "easy" and just used it as practice. Now am running RSRD too and on realistic. But the lack of targets makes one fall asleep!!

06-06-08, 05:05 PM	#6
Quillan Samurai Navy Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 579 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	If you're running Trigger Maru Overhauled, the observation scope is brighter than the attack scope, because the bigger head lets more light in. I use the attack scope during the day and the observation scope at night. In the stock game the only differences are magnification level and maximum angle of elevation. __________________ We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

06-06-08, 05:22 PM	#7
Red Devil The Old Man Join Date: May 2004 Location: Sutton Coldfield England Posts: 1,540 Downloads: 305 Uploads: 0	When I first installed SH4, I started a war patrol on "easy" and just used it as practice. Now am running RSRD too and on realistic. But the lack of targets makes one fall asleep!! __________________ > > Captain!, there's a destroyer on the por........ periscope is flooded Sir! > Darkness is only the absence of Light; Ignorance is only the absence of knowledge © www.worldwartwo.uk www.captainwalker.uk

06-05-08, 11:06 PM	#1
THE_MASK Ace of the deep . Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 9,226 Downloads: 901 Uploads: 73	My advice is to forget that training mission . Go to the mods section and downlaod the RSRDC mod where you will get loads of war patrol missions and practice with those . Cheers .

06-05-08, 11:28 PM	#2
Jerik Seaman Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 34 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Awesome, I went and installed it, will get to work. Thanks!

06-05-08, 11:46 PM	#3
Frame57 Sea Lord Join Date: May 2008 Location: 1300 feet on the crapper Posts: 1,860 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	I found the single missions to not be a great training ground. Simply because I found myself in a position i would not have approached a convoy to begin with. In the campaign if you mess it up you can start again. What works for me especially with a convoy or a task force once I have some intel via radar, sonar or radio. I knuckle around the convoy well past the radar ranges of the escorts. Place my boat in a good intercept position and I get under a thermal layer at all stop and go quiet. I let the escorts pass then it is up to PD and pick a nice juicy merchant. Sneaking past escorts is doable but there are some tricks to it and like a magician we cant give them all away, but you have one good startegy here I gave you to start. Part of the fun is learning by trial and error.

06-06-08, 02:34 PM	#4
Jerik Seaman Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 34 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	New question: I have two periscopes, the observation scope and the attack scope. I seem to be able to do TDC calculations and fire torps from either, however, so the distinction is lost on me. What is the purpose of two scopes, and when should I use one over the other?

06-06-08, 02:47 PM	#5
THE_MASK Ace of the deep . Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 9,226 Downloads: 901 Uploads: 73	I never use the obs . The attack scope is skinnier and harder to spot and the obs scope can look right up where the attack cannot .