Real nasty weather.

Packlife · 08-20-13, 01:48 AM

Was watching a documentary, an a U-boat veteran was saying how they had sailed in some impressive nasty storms, an that every so often they'd spot a lone ship. An instead of immediately attacking they would set a parallel course until conditions improved because nobody wanted to risk attacking in such bad weather. So my question is, do you attack in rough weather an how rough is too rough to where you say forget it. I also bring this up cuz currently I'm in that exact position I'm on the North Western Approaches mission in OHII. My current objective is to patrol between Feroe island an Iceland an attack an ships an task force I come across so our ships can break through, but right now I'm dealing with 1 of the nastiest storms I've dealt with so far 15mps winds which cause huge waves overcast skies heavy fog an medium rain. Since this storm started I ran into a small 2 ship convoy I spotted the outline of a cargo freighter in the fog the Lock thing didn't pop up but I fired any way I was in perfect attack position couldn't of been more than 600m away an yet torpedo completely missed my stop watch didn't even have the red line on it. Then I picked up 4 contacts total 2 groups of 2 war ships I tried to catch an intercept but the weather slowed me down too much. So I've decided to not try any more attacks until the weather conditions improve plus I'm down to 2 eel's in the fore tubes an 1 in the stern.

08-20-13, 01:48 AM	#1
Packlife Gunner Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 91 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Real nasty weather. Was watching a documentary, an a U-boat veteran was saying how they had sailed in some impressive nasty storms, an that every so often they'd spot a lone ship. An instead of immediately attacking they would set a parallel course until conditions improved because nobody wanted to risk attacking in such bad weather. So my question is, do you attack in rough weather an how rough is too rough to where you say forget it. I also bring this up cuz currently I'm in that exact position I'm on the North Western Approaches mission in OHII. My current objective is to patrol between Feroe island an Iceland an attack an ships an task force I come across so our ships can break through, but right now I'm dealing with 1 of the nastiest storms I've dealt with so far 15mps winds which cause huge waves overcast skies heavy fog an medium rain. Since this storm started I ran into a small 2 ship convoy I spotted the outline of a cargo freighter in the fog the Lock thing didn't pop up but I fired any way I was in perfect attack position couldn't of been more than 600m away an yet torpedo completely missed my stop watch didn't even have the red line on it. Then I picked up 4 contacts total 2 groups of 2 war ships I tried to catch an intercept but the weather slowed me down too much. So I've decided to not try any more attacks until the weather conditions improve plus I'm down to 2 eel's in the fore tubes an 1 in the stern.