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Old 08-02-21, 06:48 PM   #1
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I've always been more attracted to the Atlantic theartre but since SH4 seems to be running easier on my working laptop (through Steam and Proton, on Fedora 34 Linux) I decided to give it another try and I loaded FotRS. Now it's been years since I last played a subsim so presumably I just got rusty (muddy?). But still, I remember approaching a British convoy bound for Gibraltar, on surface, escorts in sight and unaware of me, lining up tor a 45 degrees (or was it 60?) zero-gyro angle shot and firing four torpedoes, one per ship, then evading on the surface...
So here I am in the convoy attack training mission I've been trying for some time. I had a moderately good initial plor for the convoy on a 335 course. I decide not to approach directly but to shoadow the convoy until really dark, surface, overtake, refine my plot and then penetrate from the front. By the time I was in position ahead of the convoy they had zigged to 200 course but still I was able to dive deep under the front escort, get behind it unnoticed and line up for a shot. When I stick my night scope, the ships are turning back to the 340 track. I start swinging the boat, trying not to get run over by a Maru. But before i could bring the tubes to bear, I notice a white speck, clearly a bow wave. There was a destroyer, most probably the front escort, racing toward me. I don(t know if i got spotted because of my sloppy periscope discipline (but it was dark, in real life it would brobably be too dark even for the HP scope, and I was going slow) or my maneuvering got me detected by sound. I suppose I should have gone deep for maneuvering, but being back up in time requires quite a lot of "nicety of timing" as Ben Bryant would say.

And that's the EZ version of this mission. Times have changed...


By the way, I ended up picking a copy of Dick O'Kane's book on his patrols in Wahoo. I read his Clear the Bridge years ago but don't remember enjoying it that much. the book on Wahoo is really compelling and has this over-the-shoulder feeling you could see their plot and figure the knobs they're turning. Great read.
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Old 08-03-21, 07:34 PM   #2
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That mission is not really a very good convoy encounter. The ships go in an odd "circle" of sorts... Time permitting, I was going to do a different set-up for the difficult one in FotRSU, but it will be a while...
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Old 08-06-21, 06:26 PM   #3
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Well, I ended up moving forward and launching a campaign, hoping to learn along the way. I did manage to get through the escorts several times and scored hits on the ships in convoy, though annoyingly they wouldn't sink.

I didn't stay in the mission long enough to notice they run in circles, I thought they were just alternating between WSW and SSW course. Still, I think I got better at the scope but I definitely lack the "nicety of timing"...
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