Ladder-pattern & acoustic - how do you like to use them?

Skubber · 10-04-06, 07:27 PM

This is picking up on something from a previous thead...

Acoustic torpedoes I pretty much use as they were intended - I'll fire one from the stern in the hopes it will track a threatening destroyer. (Got a frigate that way on my last patrol.)

The ladder-pattern torpedoes are a nice addition to my standard convoy attack.
I'll surprise the convoy with my first three or four shots.
Then I'll use a ladder torpedo for a more distant shot. (Maybe I've just spotted a juicy target way over there that I did not notice at first.)

In the late war, some convoys are pretty heavily guarded, so I'm trying some shots from a greater distance. (>1000m)
I try to initate the ladder so that it crosses two columns of the convoy. (Or three in a tightly-spaced convoy.

I've had some success with this, but there's still nothing better than getting right in the midst of all those ships!

bookworm_020 · 10-04-06, 08:03 PM

Acoustic torps are great when you have an escort comming at you, who isn't in the most friendly of moods:p

I hardly use the ladder function on ladder patten torp's as I always get close enough to see the whites of their eye's before launching torpedo's. I also make sure I pick the best targets before fireing, so I get the big ones before the escorts know I'm there.

It when they see A tanker or troopship tear itself apart do they realise that I have arrived!

Hueywolf123 · 10-04-06, 08:14 PM

I've never met a friendly escort (except the ones you hire for a night)

Ducimus · 10-04-06, 08:42 PM

Honestly ive stopped using FaT or LuT torpedo's altogether except in the aft torpedo tubes as a means of escape if i dont have an acustic.

Hybris · 10-04-06, 09:30 PM

I love the acouistic torps for taking out dangerous patroling harbor guards (Armed trawlers though are tricky not usually loud enough) I shoot at 5700m to 2500m depending on wither or not I think the target will start zig zaging.
The Luts and Fats I never bothered with.

Dantenoc · 10-04-06, 11:01 PM

Step ladder pattern torpedoes aren't that easy to use, specialy since the manual is very vage on them... perhaps someone with more experience could post a mini tutorial?

10-04-06, 07:27 PM	#1
Skubber Officer Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Rochester, NY, USA Posts: 239 Downloads: 36 Uploads: 0	Ladder-pattern & acoustic - how do you like to use them? This is picking up on something from a previous thead... Acoustic torpedoes I pretty much use as they were intended - I'll fire one from the stern in the hopes it will track a threatening destroyer. (Got a frigate that way on my last patrol.) The ladder-pattern torpedoes are a nice addition to my standard convoy attack. I'll surprise the convoy with my first three or four shots. Then I'll use a ladder torpedo for a more distant shot. (Maybe I've just spotted a juicy target way over there that I did not notice at first.) In the late war, some convoys are pretty heavily guarded, so I'm trying some shots from a greater distance. (>1000m) I try to initate the ladder so that it crosses two columns of the convoy. (Or three in a tightly-spaced convoy. I've had some success with this, but there's still nothing better than getting right in the midst of all those ships! __________________ "I wish to have no Connection with any Ship that does not Sail fast for I intend to go in harm's way." - Captain John Paul Jones, 1778

10-04-06, 08:03 PM	#2
bookworm_020 Navy Seal Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sinking ships off the Australian coast Posts: 5,966 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Acoustic torps are great when you have an escort comming at you, who isn't in the most friendly of moods:p I hardly use the ladder function on ladder patten torp's as I always get close enough to see the whites of their eye's before launching torpedo's. I also make sure I pick the best targets before fireing, so I get the big ones before the escorts know I'm there. It when they see A tanker or troopship tear itself apart do they realise that I have arrived! __________________ "There is always one person in any organization who knows whats going on, That person must be fired"

10-04-06, 09:30 PM	#5
Hybris Officer Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Periscope Depth... Posts: 237 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	I love the acouistic torps for taking out dangerous patroling harbor guards (Armed trawlers though are tricky not usually loud enough) I shoot at 5700m to 2500m depending on wither or not I think the target will start zig zaging. The Luts and Fats I never bothered with. __________________ "His masters voice!" "FASTER! FAAAASSSTTER!" "All submariners have one universal wish regardless of nation, cause, or creed. That wish is that the boat goes up and stay up one more time then it goes down." ~Hybris 8/22/07

10-04-06, 11:01 PM	#6
Dantenoc Captain Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Ensenada, B.C., Mexico Posts: 504 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Step ladder pattern torpedoes aren't that easy to use, specialy since the manual is very vage on them... perhaps someone with more experience could post a mini tutorial? __________________ Going to U-boot school : http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=88922 http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=90234 http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=88961 http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=97682

10-04-06, 08:14 PM	#3
Hueywolf123 Bosun Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: gosford, Australia Posts: 68 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I've never met a friendly escort (except the ones you hire for a night)

10-04-06, 08:42 PM	#4
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	Honestly ive stopped using FaT or LuT torpedo's altogether except in the aft torpedo tubes as a means of escape if i dont have an acustic.