Extreme Nooblet Questions

[Heibges]

When the Germans first upgraded the AA on their uboats, the Allied answer was to attack with 2 or more planes at once, especially over the Bay of Biscay.

Once the Allies could attack at night with radar which the uboats couldn't detect, the Germans were basically buggered.

Forced below the surface, the uboat captain had to pray the target steamed over the top of him, because otherwise there would be no chance to intercept due to the low underwater speed of the uboat, and limitations of uboat batteries.

[romelus]

hmm i guess the risk of losing a flak gunner overboard is rather high in rough weather. i did run into a couple of planes in my latest patrol. it was really difficult to track them. they appear for only a few seconds. by the time i swang around the flak gun they were already on their way out. they dropped bombs but luckily didn't hit me. it was nothing like the training mission where they just flew slowly in circles waiting for me to shoot them down in 10 minutes.

Originally Posted by Heibges

Forced below the surface, the uboat captain had to pray the target steamed over the top of him, because otherwise there would be no chance to intercept due to the low underwater speed of the uboat, and limitations of uboat batteries.

this happened to me, in a bad way. i shot 2 torps at a J class DD on my 4th patrol. it was the biggest DD i had seen yet. first torp hit but didn't sink, 2nd one either missed or was a dud. i shot my 3rd fish, but it started turning and evaded the attack. now it was coming straight to me. i had realistic reloads on, and it would be another few minutes before i could shoot again, so i backed up full speed.

the DD was much faster and my men were still reloading. before i knew it the DD was almost on me! i decided to turn too late, and also made the dumb decision to go from reverse to full forward. well... they drove right over my periscope, i was dumped back into a leaking command room :rotfl:

they cut me real bad. and i sank like a stone with red damage to much of the hull. i put a repair team together but they couldn't repair fast enough. soon i hit the bottom and a few seconds later i died due to flooding.

second death in 4 patrols... good thing this wasn't real. i reloaded and finished the patrol sinking the J class DD and two V&W DDs.

on the flak gun sinking. i managed to sink a trawler with only 100 rounds. no prior damage to it. i tried sinking an armed trawler and couldn't do anything to it after 1000 rounds. bullets just seemingly bounced off. meanwhile it took my hull to 71% with some nasty deck gun shots, but its flak gun shots bounced off my hull too. i think this has something to do with armor levels. armed trawler is the same boat as a trawler, just probably armored. i hope i'll get a deck gun soon (might need a new sub for it), then those trawlers will pay!!!