Passive DD's

r_wagner · 05-28-06, 12:32 PM

Just finished my first patrol with U-91 of the 11th flotilla. This was the first time I had a go using 100% realism coupled with the usual gw+nygm+euc and sh3gen.

I managed to sneak into reykjavik harbour and sink me a light cruiser, a liberty cargo and a large merchant. Later I intercepted a convoy and put 3 tankers (one large, two medium) on the bottom. After all this I finished with a handsome 48k tons to my name which any kaleun can be proud of!

My problem with this patrol is that apart from a couple of aircraft attacks I was never (!) DC'ed the entire patrol. The attack on reykjavik harbor sparked no countermeasures (and I was there for over 18 hours... damn liberty cargo took 5 torps to sink) and twice I sailed into the aforementioned convoy for the hits and yet none of the six escorts ever came after me! No pings or nothing! And this was in the end of 1942 when fortunes were surely beginning to turn for Germany, I was expecting to get pounded with DC's after sailing into that convoy.

To top it all of, I had to emerge to sink the last tanker with my deck gun since I was out of torps. It had lost power so I gave the convoy two hours to leave before coming up to fire. The seas were choppy so aiming was tricky but after about 20 minutes a couple of the escorts appear on the horizon. Bad news indeed I thought, so I waited until they were ca. 5km away and then I dove silently to 200m. I was down there waiting for pings and such but nothing happened. Remembering the escorts' less than stellar performance a couple of hours before I went to PD and saw that both had turned around before they even reached my location and were heading back to the convoy!!! They didn't even try to find me... So I just gave it another three hours and then emerged to finish off the last ship before heading home.

Needless to say I was expecting more aggressive behaviour from the escorts. If any of you fellow kaleuns have any mods or such making DD's more aggressive I'd love to hear about it. However, if this behaviour is normal for the game in 1942 then I'll accept it (my first time this far in). It just sounded a bit more hardcore in Iron Coffins!

Thanks for the help

P.s. I had a strange occurence when stopping at a milk cow with that all extras for the uboat (sonar, radar, supercharge... ) disappeared, also seems to be happening randomly when in port... anyone else seen this happen?

05-28-06, 12:32 PM	#1
r_wagner Mate Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 52 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Passive DD's Just finished my first patrol with U-91 of the 11th flotilla. This was the first time I had a go using 100% realism coupled with the usual gw+nygm+euc and sh3gen. I managed to sneak into reykjavik harbour and sink me a light cruiser, a liberty cargo and a large merchant. Later I intercepted a convoy and put 3 tankers (one large, two medium) on the bottom. After all this I finished with a handsome 48k tons to my name which any kaleun can be proud of! My problem with this patrol is that apart from a couple of aircraft attacks I was never (!) DC'ed the entire patrol. The attack on reykjavik harbor sparked no countermeasures (and I was there for over 18 hours... damn liberty cargo took 5 torps to sink) and twice I sailed into the aforementioned convoy for the hits and yet none of the six escorts ever came after me! No pings or nothing! And this was in the end of 1942 when fortunes were surely beginning to turn for Germany, I was expecting to get pounded with DC's after sailing into that convoy. To top it all of, I had to emerge to sink the last tanker with my deck gun since I was out of torps. It had lost power so I gave the convoy two hours to leave before coming up to fire. The seas were choppy so aiming was tricky but after about 20 minutes a couple of the escorts appear on the horizon. Bad news indeed I thought, so I waited until they were ca. 5km away and then I dove silently to 200m. I was down there waiting for pings and such but nothing happened. Remembering the escorts' less than stellar performance a couple of hours before I went to PD and saw that both had turned around before they even reached my location and were heading back to the convoy!!! They didn't even try to find me... So I just gave it another three hours and then emerged to finish off the last ship before heading home. Needless to say I was expecting more aggressive behaviour from the escorts. If any of you fellow kaleuns have any mods or such making DD's more aggressive I'd love to hear about it. However, if this behaviour is normal for the game in 1942 then I'll accept it (my first time this far in). It just sounded a bit more hardcore in Iron Coffins! Thanks for the help P.s. I had a strange occurence when stopping at a milk cow with that all extras for the uboat (sonar, radar, supercharge... ) disappeared, also seems to be happening randomly when in port... anyone else seen this happen?