Fog is a pain!!!!!

[Iron Budokan]

Fog can be a pain, but it's more help than hurt, really. But, yeah, I still remember one of my first careers when a DD raced out of the fog and cut me in two. I stared at the screen, my jaw agape. I couldn't believe it.....

[John|Blackthorne]

"schnorkeling"

What does this reffer to exactly?

[Abd_von_Mumit]

Originally Posted by John|Blackthorne

"schnorkeling"

What does this reffer to exactly?

Have a look at this thread, explaining the topic to pain level:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...hlight=snorkel

[Paajtor]

Originally Posted by Puster Bill

I started a career in 1943, at Bergen (I wanted a Type XXI when they become available). I made it all the way to December, 1944. Aircraft harass you day and night. You have to schnorkel most of the time, otherwise you will get killed.

Here are my tips for survival:

1. As soon as you can, get a schnorkel, and use it religiously.
2. Get every radar detector you can, as soon as it becomes available (Metox, Wanze, Naxos, etc.)
3. When you get an indication of radar signals, dive immediately, or lower your schnorkel if you are schnorkeling.
4. Do not, under any circumstances, transmit status reports or contact reports to BdU.
5. Avoid convoys. They are bad Ju-ju.
6. Attack lone destroyers, frigates, corvettes, etc. only when the conditions are absolutely favorable.
7. Concentrate on lone merchants. There are still a few of them out there.
8. Attack submerged, always. You probably won't have a deck gun anyway, but if you do, ignore it.
9. If you *MUST* attack a convoy, do it from long range. Fire the bow tubes, turn 180 degrees away from the convoy, fire the stern tubes, then either go very deep or stay at periscope depth, silent running at 2 knots or less.

These hints won't rack up a lot of tonnage, but they will keep you alive for as long as possible.

That's a pretty good list, imo.
I'm currently sailing in Sept.'42 (Bergen, VIIC), and most of these tips are already showing their value.
But I'm still alive - on 3rd patrol (I do allot in realtime) - and '43 is getting near.

[andy_311]

Irespective of what year your in be it 43,44,or 45 "Fog is a pain in the backside" I don't even attack convoys anymore in fog so much can go wrong if you mess up and with visability down to 350m it's not worth it.

[johan_d]

Sieg Heil to the fog!

[Spudwiser]

I prefier the darknes over the fog. I find when it is dark it is MUCH eaiser to stay behind tge convoy and let their prop noise mask my approch.

[Tiny]

Darkness is better than fog, Medium fog is alright but most of all I preffer 0m/s wind speed and ...thats just the way it is

[High Voltage]

Snorkels:
from "U-Boat War"

Now the boats that ran on Diesel oil were able to hide below the durface, while inhaling sufficient air for their engines through metal tubes. A second tube allowed the Diesel exhaust to escape upward. At the tip of the tube, a lid would come down and shut it off as soon as the upper end submerged.
(...) For the crew snorkeling was an agony; whenever a wave made the valve at the tip of the snorkel shut off the air supply to the diesels, the engines satisfied their considerable need for oxygen by draining the air directly from the boat's interior. At times the men were writhing on the floor in torment as their eardrums burst.

(...) At a level of some 150 feet under water - that is, in daytime - the external pressure was such that the sewage could not be pumped out of the boat. The drains were therefore emptied into a container that could be evacuated at a lesser depth, i.e., at nighttime when the snorkel was in use. A frightful stench soon pervaded the interior of the boat, because in addition there was no adequate system for removing the garbage. A number of different ways were tried: pushing it out through one of the torpedo tubes, or through tube six, the one intended for the "bolt", but which was not a feature of every boat, or else cramming it into empty containers - but no acceptable solution was found.

Good times.

[Puster Bill]

Originally Posted by Paajtor

That's a pretty good list, imo.
I'm currently sailing in Sept.'42 (Bergen, VIIC), and most of these tips are already showing their value.
But I'm still alive - on 3rd patrol (I do allot in realtime) - and '43 is getting near.

Thanks. Mostly it is just common sense: Don't let them see, hear, smell, or taste you. Stay away from things that can hurt you.

[Gezoes]

Originally Posted by IceGrog

i too love the fog

I haven't seen the sun in almost two weeks in my early 1940 career. One gets used to it. Besides, there's a convoy that's been wishing for some sun much more than me because I keep attacking them, no matter what the time is! :rotfl:

[Myxale]

Originally Posted by STEED

Fog is sexy

Sex also makes things Foggy!

[IceGrog]

Originally Posted by Myxale

Sex also makes things Foggy!

yeah..........but you are not supposed to be doing that while you captain your boat.............................

[RawRecruit]

Yeah, it's Bernard that's supposed to screw you!

[Myxale]

My U-Boot isn't the only thing on my mind...i also have a car...:rotfl: