Convoy

Das Kaptain · 09-04-05, 04:12 PM

Can someone please point me to a good reference for attacking convoys? It's November 1940, I am attacking convoys and all of a sudden I have 4 destroyers banging away at me with really good accuracy.

I sat quietly to the side and waited for the convoy to glide by in the dark. I unloaded all 4 torpedoes on the tanker...clunk clunk clunk...boom not enough damage. Destroyers kill me every time

Help

Das Kaptain

FAdmiral · 09-04-05, 04:20 PM

I try to hit at least 1 merchant so it goes dead in the water.
Then I hide under it. The DD's won't get too close or drop
DCs very near the merchant. Then just wait it out till they
leave and then sink the merchant.....

JIM

Das Kaptain · 09-04-05, 04:33 PM

I found a thread in the forums that suggest coming in from behind. That gives you a much smaller target to hit...isn't it easier to hit from the side? I never seem to get hits directly head on or from direct behind.

Das Kaptain

09-04-05, 04:12 PM	#1
Das Kaptain Swabbie Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 13 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Convoy Can someone please point me to a good reference for attacking convoys? It's November 1940, I am attacking convoys and all of a sudden I have 4 destroyers banging away at me with really good accuracy. I sat quietly to the side and waited for the convoy to glide by in the dark. I unloaded all 4 torpedoes on the tanker...clunk clunk clunk...boom not enough damage. Destroyers kill me every time Help Das Kaptain __________________

09-04-05, 04:20 PM	#2
FAdmiral Pacific Aces Dev Team Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Atlanta, GA, USA Posts: 1,079 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	I try to hit at least 1 merchant so it goes dead in the water. Then I hide under it. The DD's won't get too close or drop DCs very near the merchant. Then just wait it out till they leave and then sink the merchant..... JIM __________________ If you\'re not taking losses, you\'re not doing enough. RAdm. Kelly Turner, USN ********************************** www.fairtax.org

09-04-05, 04:33 PM	#3
Das Kaptain Swabbie Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 13 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Coming from behind.... I found a thread in the forums that suggest coming in from behind. That gives you a much smaller target to hit...isn't it easier to hit from the side? I never seem to get hits directly head on or from direct behind. Das Kaptain __________________