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Hello !
Some time ago, I started a carrer with a D2 U Boot.
Now, that`s quite a change after all convoy battles in the north Atlantic and near England...

.... and to bring all the small, lone merchants down, I`ve found a good tactics.
It`s after 1942 so all these small vessels are armed. Sure, a single cannon cannot do much damage, considering how poorly training the guys are. Still, if your patrol lasts 6 months, every damage to the hull can be VERY troublesome when at last some DDs is chasing you.


So, I`ve found a way to bring these small vessels down with my deck gun, as I don`t consider them beeing worthy a torpedo ( with NYGM, you don`t know for sure if a single hit`s enough, mind you).


If I find a vessel, I dive. SImple enough.
Then, when I know the position et c. - I move the boat so that my bow is pointed precisely at the vessels AFT, and my U Boot is in the very FRONT of the vessel, let`s say 10-20 degrees on on of the boards.
I wait until the vessel is within 200-300 meters.
Blow ballast tanks, so that your huge D 2 gets surfaced within seconds.
THEN, You man your gun and...
If you`re good enough, you have just time to man the gun, aim for the vessel`s gun and destroy it with a single shot before it even turns to shoot at you!
Once the gun is destroyed, the vessel is all yours

Used such tactics for 6 times by now, always effective. Therefore, I decided I could share this idea.