ANTIAIRCRAFT ARTILLERY ON STRIKE:

[jorgegonzalito]

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[Crannogman]

That is weird. Make sure the AA crew are the best available - you should be able to get efficiency up near 100%. Man battle stations, and wait until the guns are actually manned to press the "fire at will" button. You don't need to press other buttons, and make sure they are lit before the planes get close.

If you are attacked by planes while surfaced, do man the AA guns and then set them to "fire at will." I generally go to full or flank speed as the plane approaches, and turn so that the plane is approaching from aside and a little bit behind. As the plane is diving, perhaps firing, I put the rudder over hard in the direction of the plane. The bombs generally miss on the far side. The only time I was hit was when I got in the path of 20 torpedo bombers, but none of them survived (most of them crashed into each other).

[jorgegonzalito]

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[Rockin Robbins]

Hi. Here I am being contrary again. My position is that AA guns are for popping sampans and drying laundry.

Let's look at the scorecard:

Submarine. Expensive. More than 60 highly trained men at risk. Difficult and time consuming to build.

Airplane. Cheap. One or two men at risk. Easy to replace, they're turning them out like popcorn.

So you're in the difficult to replace and very expensive submarine with 65 sailors in the people tube. Are you willing to stay on the surface and slug it out with a cheap, quick and easy to replace airplane?

If you win you've deprived the enemy of nothing much. Two men and a cheap airplane. But if they win they've destroyed your sophisticated, difficult to produce, slow to manufacture very expensive submarine and killed 65 highly trained sailors.

The cost/benefits ratio just sucks here. You have no business ever shooting at an airplane. Get the hades off the surface and to sink one of their expensive, impossible to replace merchants filled with a hundred or more well-trained sailors. Reverse that sucky cost/benefits fiasco and turn it in your favor by fighting the fight your ship was designed for!

War is supposed to be hell--for the enemy!

[Crannogman]

Originally Posted by jorgegonzalito

Thanks Crannogman:
Then I choose the most qualified crew for each major task, I thought that the game was in charge of that automatically. However, when an aircraft is about to attack the submarine must be opened on the screen a picture of options, including immersion at periscope depth, and return fire with anti-aircraft weapons, but in this case it did not happen and crew ignored orders to attack the plane or at the discretion fire. These orders are scheduled in each mission, or already are default in the game?

Are you saying that you are at periscope depth, or that you have the option to go to periscope depth?

I agree that the best policy is to dive before you are attacked. But if you are caught on the surface, you will not be able to get below before being bombed, you are probably better off shooting back and maneuvering as I discussed above. Did you try manning the AA gun yourself and shooting at the plane? It may be that you are put of ammo or that the plane is attacking from a direction where the AA gun cannot point

[fireftr18]

I noticed the dialogue that appears when your crew spots a contact isn't very good. I think there's an "ignore" option or "continue orders" option. I click on that, then go through the command bar as usual.

[jorgegonzalito]

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