Stalking/hunting questions

Khourieat · 04-04-08, 10:38 AM

Hello! This probably comes up quite a bit, but I poked around for it in this forum and didn't see anything, and without a wiki here it goes again

What are some good hunting spots? I finished the objective on my first mission, and went off to poke about just outside Osaka, but only found a bunch of fishing boats and a single medium merchant (around 3k tons I think), I'm not expecting to find a T3 on every patrol, but are there some good areas to catch shipping? I have a map from replacementdocs.com showing this port as having quite a bit of activity, but it didn't seem to be the case.

I'm running stock 1.4 and stationed in Pearl.

Secondly, I've been using the mag/impact combo triggers on my torpedoes, but I generally go for bow shots instead of keel shots. Should I switch to imp triggers, will they cause better damage? The little guys are harder to take down then I expected

I've been aiming about .5 to 1 meter above the keel hoping for a good hit, but these medium and small ships are taking 2-3 hits to go down, and I'm assuming it's my poor aim (I used to cheat in SH3 and use the ship damage charts to aim, those were great help!)

And I caught my first convoy on my way back, used up a good number of torpedoes trying to take down the 5 merchants while dodging the 3 destroyers, where do I send away for my cookie? :rotfl:

04-04-08, 10:38 AM	#1
Khourieat Helmsman Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: NYC, USA Posts: 110 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Stalking/hunting questions Hello! This probably comes up quite a bit, but I poked around for it in this forum and didn't see anything, and without a wiki here it goes again What are some good hunting spots? I finished the objective on my first mission, and went off to poke about just outside Osaka, but only found a bunch of fishing boats and a single medium merchant (around 3k tons I think), I'm not expecting to find a T3 on every patrol, but are there some good areas to catch shipping? I have a map from replacementdocs.com showing this port as having quite a bit of activity, but it didn't seem to be the case. I'm running stock 1.4 and stationed in Pearl. Secondly, I've been using the mag/impact combo triggers on my torpedoes, but I generally go for bow shots instead of keel shots. Should I switch to imp triggers, will they cause better damage? The little guys are harder to take down then I expected I've been aiming about .5 to 1 meter above the keel hoping for a good hit, but these medium and small ships are taking 2-3 hits to go down, and I'm assuming it's my poor aim (I used to cheat in SH3 and use the ship damage charts to aim, those were great help!) And I caught my first convoy on my way back, used up a good number of torpedoes trying to take down the 5 merchants while dodging the 3 destroyers, where do I send away for my cookie? :rotfl: