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gazpode_l · 04-13-10, 09:50 AM

Has anyone had much luck with the Irish sea, a triangle between Holyhead, Dublin and Milford Haven (Not marked on Sh3)

I've been finding plentyful contacts along that stretch

and bagged my third merchant in a month there, my second in Barely 12hrs!

AND I was sure I heard twp or THREE DIFFERENT sets of screws with my own ears when i manualled used the hydrophones, so there is clearly more out there who want to come and play with me tonight!

frau kaleun · 04-13-10, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by gazpode_l

Has anyone had much luck with the Irish sea, a triangle between Holyhead, Dublin and Milford Haven (Not marked on Sh3)

So far in my limited experience (haven't made it past mid-1940 yet) I've had the best luck in and around grids AM52 & 53 in the upper Approaches, and the western half of sector BF in the lower Approaches.

Tyically I haven't had to go much further inland than that looking for targets, this last now-defunct career being the exception, however it was storming unmercifully for the last week of it so who knows what was out there that we just couldn't see.

Once I passed through the AM grids on my way south to my patrol station in the lower Approaches just as hostilities opened with GB, ended up using a third of my eels and quite a bit of gun ammo before I got any farther south. Prey was plentiful. Still had two torps for the stern tube when I passed through again on the way home, used those and the rest of the deck gun ammo on what I found there. As I recall we even finished off a couple of ships with the flak gun because we had nothing else left to shoot at them.

krashkart · 04-13-10, 12:44 PM

Haven't been through the Irish Sea again since installing GWX, but when I played the stock game I usually had luck there. Daytime could be a pain with regular patrols of Hurricanes swooping in. After awhile they were like swarms of mosquitoes. :\

A trick I learned is to find a shipping lane and follow it. I hit one in '43 on a long haul to New York City, followed it all the way into US waters and found a fair amount of traffic along the way. Pretty sure it was either the Liverpool-Halifax or England-Halifax route - probably the former.

04-13-10, 09:50 AM	#1
gazpode_l 中国水兵 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Chelmsford, Essex Posts: 280 Downloads: 50 Uploads: 0	Irish Sea Has anyone had much luck with the Irish sea, a triangle between Holyhead, Dublin and Milford Haven (Not marked on Sh3) I've been finding plentyful contacts along that stretch and bagged my third merchant in a month there, my second in Barely 12hrs! AND I was sure I heard twp or THREE DIFFERENT sets of screws with my own ears when i manualled used the hydrophones, so there is clearly more out there who want to come and play with me tonight!

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krashkart Navy Seal Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 5,292 Downloads: 100 Uploads: 0	Haven't been through the Irish Sea again since installing GWX, but when I played the stock game I usually had luck there. Daytime could be a pain with regular patrols of Hurricanes swooping in. After awhile they were like swarms of mosquitoes. :\ A trick I learned is to find a shipping lane and follow it. I hit one in '43 on a long haul to New York City, followed it all the way into US waters and found a fair amount of traffic along the way. Pretty sure it was either the Liverpool-Halifax or England-Halifax route - probably the former. __________________ sent from my fingertips using a cheap keyboard Last edited by krashkart; 04-13-10 at 08:17 PM.