Hell, how I suck at this game... I really need help.

Koranis · 02-27-07, 10:57 PM

Hello.

Before posting this I've read a lot of threads where more experienced captains described their battles. It seems so easy and cool. Well, cool it is, but it is not easy. I play at 100% realism. I have no problem with finding my targets. I have problems with:

1. Approching the escorted convoys.
2. Calculating firing solutions fast
3. Escaping the DS.

1. Now, how do you manage to get behind the DS screen and shadow the merchants? If I move at 3ks I'm to slow, and even at 3ks I'm being found. At higher speed I make more noise, so what the hell?... Is moving ahead far from the convoy and then waiting for them on the route is the only one way to get into the position?

2. When I reach the ideal position I have always little time left before the dogs smell my scent. Then I fail to calculate the optimal firing solution and thus I loose my good position. The only thing is then retreat and repeat the long approach...

3. When the DS are all around me, the only good tactic I found to be working is to pretend to be dead. But even then it takes an hour! I go deep (VIIB so I go at 175 meters) at 3ks but those buggers keep following me! (it's october 1940). I wait for the charges to explode, than I turn, go as deep as I can, at 3ks, but then those buggers keep following me, again!

What am I doing wrong?

Now, it's my third campaign and I've never reached 1941 before. This campaign is going nicely compared to the previous two, and I have good results: I got bombed but then I got out almost without scratch, I take out the targets and so on. But still I feel I'm not doing it right... The DS got me because of my incompetence at approaching the convoys, and because of my stupid courage, ergo not knowing when it's time to hide my ass. I know that even if my tonnage is high enough, I will get myself killed if I keep playing like this... several times so it's not the good way.

02-27-07, 10:57 PM	#1
Koranis Helmsman Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 107 Downloads: 84 Uploads: 0	Hell, how I suck at this game... I really need help. Hello. Before posting this I've read a lot of threads where more experienced captains described their battles. It seems so easy and cool. Well, cool it is, but it is not easy. I play at 100% realism. I have no problem with finding my targets. I have problems with: 1. Approching the escorted convoys. 2. Calculating firing solutions fast 3. Escaping the DS. 1. Now, how do you manage to get behind the DS screen and shadow the merchants? If I move at 3ks I'm to slow, and even at 3ks I'm being found. At higher speed I make more noise, so what the hell?... Is moving ahead far from the convoy and then waiting for them on the route is the only one way to get into the position? 2. When I reach the ideal position I have always little time left before the dogs smell my scent. Then I fail to calculate the optimal firing solution and thus I loose my good position. The only thing is then retreat and repeat the long approach... 3. When the DS are all around me, the only good tactic I found to be working is to pretend to be dead. But even then it takes an hour! I go deep (VIIB so I go at 175 meters) at 3ks but those buggers keep following me! (it's october 1940). I wait for the charges to explode, than I turn, go as deep as I can, at 3ks, but then those buggers keep following me, again! What am I doing wrong? Now, it's my third campaign and I've never reached 1941 before. This campaign is going nicely compared to the previous two, and I have good results: I got bombed but then I got out almost without scratch, I take out the targets and so on. But still I feel I'm not doing it right... The DS got me because of my incompetence at approaching the convoys, and because of my stupid courage, ergo not knowing when it's time to hide my ass. I know that even if my tonnage is high enough, I will get myself killed if I keep playing like this... several times so it's not the good way.