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[taylortd]

hello all,

great board here, really helped me starting out.

been playing a week or so now and on my third mission. first two went well, sunk a few ships and such.

third mission i run into a 16 ship convoy. ended up being guarding by five escorts.

my question is about evasion. i have read on this board that waiting for an escort to speed up (im being pursued) is the time to turn hard right/left. at flank speed (im at about 70m depth) i cant hear any of this so i started waiting for the pinging to stop then make my turn. it worked the two times i used it.

question: Is that also reliable to wait until the pinging stops to then turn out of his path? I hear the pings increase in speed and get louder and then nothing. Is he over top of me at this point or still aproaching?

I dont know if i explained it well enough, very new to these type of sims but really loving it so far.

thanks,
rt

[taylortd]

hello all,

great board here, really helped me starting out.

been playing a week or so now and on my third mission. first two went well, sunk a few ships and such.

third mission i run into a 16 ship convoy. ended up being guarding by five escorts.

my question is about evasion. i have read on this board that waiting for an escort to speed up (im being pursued) is the time to turn hard right/left. at flank speed (im at about 70m depth) i cant hear any of this so i started waiting for the pinging to stop then make my turn. it worked the two times i used it.

question: Is that also reliable to wait until the pinging stops to then turn out of his path? I hear the pings increase in speed and get louder and then nothing. Is he over top of me at this point or still aproaching?

I dont know if i explained it well enough, very new to these type of sims but really loving it so far.

thanks,
rt

[The Avon Lady]

Recommended: read up about evading at Red Devil's site.

[JU88]

lol im not much help, i like to play at being rambo it this non-rambo game.
I stay at periscope depth, when a destroyer sees me, i turn to face their attack run head on, open up a tube, let them reach about 700 to 600 meters then fire a fast steam fish head on in to their bow, (they got no time to manouver) then crash dive with hard port/starboard,

(as much as id love to stick around to watch them nose dive in to the sea - i dont want them ploughing in to my sub weather alive or dead )

actually works better with the stern tubes because you got a better gettaway.

it works 70% of the time though i get the occasional shell in my conning tower for it.

LOL i once pulled this off on VW DD in the channel (abeit with out a crash dive) hit him with mininmum torp range, he missed my sub by inches, funny thing was it was so shallow, when he did a vertical dive/sink his bow hit the ocean floor whilst his stern was stuck in the air, he looked like the empire state building, then he stayed like that for the next tens mins - until i was brutally rammed and killed by his buddy, Mr clemson