Tankers are the highest value targets among merchants, taking about 3 straight torpedo hits on the same side to sink it, but certain sections make a 1-torpedo kill possible, igniting the flammables in the tanks. Again, deck guns can only be used in good weather, most effective when firing at hulls below the water, making the ship flood and either capsize or sink. Helps to stay out in the sea longer when ammo is limited. U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.Although at times they were efficient fleet weapons against enemy naval warships, they were most effectively used in an economic warfare role (commerce raiding) and enforcing a naval blockade against enemy shipping.
Useful in unarmed groups to wound as many ships as the torpedo tubes can chuck out to make them sitting ducks to deck gun fire, not so useful if a warship just happens to be nearby. And the torpedoes won't explode at all if it did not propel for about 300 meters, mainly as a safety measure to avoid a point-blank failure and blast the Uboat in the process.įor more advanced tactics, if the weather is calm, use less torpedoes than usual to wound the ship, and then use deck gun to finish them. It had a typical range of about 7,500 metres (24,600 ft) while running at 40 knots (74 km/h 46 mph). It had a warhead of 280 kilograms (617pds) of hexanite which was quite sufficient at destroying surface ships. More often with realistic dud rates, and high risk of duds at skimming angles where the hull doesn't hit the impact detonator and the magnetic trigger fails to sense metal. The G7a was a steam driven torpedo used by the Kriegsmarine during the early years of world war 2. So no point sending American lend-lease ships into the bottom while US was not involved in the war until the declaration in 1941. The German Navy encourages to sink only hostile vessels, or at least marked as hostile. I indicate a ship with my periscope, I ask him to identify it, I ask him to provide a solution, I ask him to fire.7 posts So, Ive started playing Silent Hunter III. Stormy foggy nights are the worst times to shoot torpedoes, especially in convoy raids when you can't tell neutral from hostile ships. outside door torpedo K : Captain logs There is a Quick Reference Guide with games. Most Uboats move faster in the surface, but risk getting seen, especially in day. TACTICS There has never been anything complete as a silent hunter III. If you see the ship before the ship or airplane sees you, take note of the direction, then position yourself in a path ahead of the ship, pointing the torpedoes where they will definitely be as close as 90 degrees punching straight to the hull rather than a skimming angle.
However, the delay between firing and exiting the Uboat will really mess up your planned hits, especially if farther you are from the target and faster both the target and Uboat are. The crew and weapon officer auto-calculates the trajectory based on where your periscope is aiming at the hull. If you still stick to the vanilla game, one of my torpedo approaches was checking how many knots the ship is going, then move the periscope aim towards the bow based on how fast.
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