Your most successful attack on a convoy

Kaleun Cook · 04-12-07, 02:02 PM

Ahoi,

maybe you'd like to share the experiences in your most successful attacks on convoys with the community. Of course I wouldn't ask if I had nothing to tell.

I'm playing a campaign with 80 % realism early in the war. On the way from Wilhelmshaven to my PQ near Gibraltar I intercepted a convoy southwest of England. It was dark night when the ships went by. I went for a big freighter at flank speed when I was looking for a possible second target - and spotted a south hampton cruiser. I sent two torpedoes out for each ship when I recognised that I accidently rushed into the convoy. Quickly I set up my stern torpedo for another big freighter that just drove by behind me. All eels hit, destroying the first two ships and damaging the third so it sank a few miles further. In the morning I drove another attack and sunk two big ships. In the afternoon I attacked again, submerged this time, picking another two ships and damaging a third one that had outmaneuvered one of two steam torpedoes I fired at it. I wanted to sink it in another night attack but a heavy storm with bad rain made that impossible.
So alltogether I sunk 46669 tons between 2:21 and 14:50. Since it is early in the war the escorts were pretty easy and didn't find me in depths between 160 and 180 meters.

I'm sure you elite guys had much better patrols, can't wait to hear about them.

04-12-07, 02:02 PM	#1
Kaleun Cook Chief Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: ger Posts: 313 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	Your most successful attack on a convoy Ahoi, maybe you'd like to share the experiences in your most successful attacks on convoys with the community. Of course I wouldn't ask if I had nothing to tell. I'm playing a campaign with 80 % realism early in the war. On the way from Wilhelmshaven to my PQ near Gibraltar I intercepted a convoy southwest of England. It was dark night when the ships went by. I went for a big freighter at flank speed when I was looking for a possible second target - and spotted a south hampton cruiser. I sent two torpedoes out for each ship when I recognised that I accidently rushed into the convoy. Quickly I set up my stern torpedo for another big freighter that just drove by behind me. All eels hit, destroying the first two ships and damaging the third so it sank a few miles further. In the morning I drove another attack and sunk two big ships. In the afternoon I attacked again, submerged this time, picking another two ships and damaging a third one that had outmaneuvered one of two steam torpedoes I fired at it. I wanted to sink it in another night attack but a heavy storm with bad rain made that impossible. So alltogether I sunk 46669 tons between 2:21 and 14:50. Since it is early in the war the escorts were pretty easy and didn't find me in depths between 160 and 180 meters. I'm sure you elite guys had much better patrols, can't wait to hear about them.