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Originally Posted by Roxor
So on the first mission for the Atlantic Air Gap Mission I was told to "Intercept a convoy and sink at least 2 ships"
In that area I was doing 6-7 knots, every 2h manual hydro search @ 34m, doing 45° tacking every 4h. (Zig-Zag)
While listing to the hydro, I found an unknown contact. I raced to it at 15 knots for 1h then another hydro search. This time my sonar man calls out "Merchant-mid speed-long distance" + some warships. I thought it was a merchant convoy w/ heavy escort. Lucky for me they were closing the distance and getting closer. I waited for a bit until my sonar man could give me a distance (12000m). Next I plotted an intercept, witch was only like 4-5km away.
Lol when I looked through the scope and saw first the Illustrious-class aircraft carrier then the Royal Sovereign Battleship. 
I fired 2 on each and only one hit on each. (2 duds)
So the answer is be at the right place at the right time. The convoy was vary fast at 17 knots. I think I was lucky because at 17 knots you can't catch up or follow. Also watch out for the flank destroyers in the formation they came vary close to me and I was over 2000m away from the A/C.
Also keep in mind the sonar man calls the A/C a Merchant! 
After the hits and they started sinking the whole task force was on me for 4h I was depth charged and forced to dive to 160m. Eventually I made it back to base.
Don't know why it did not count for the task... a little disappointing. Just says Finished in red. If someone knows why this is please let me know 
-Gute Zeiten ! |
How many escorts the task force have?i encounter some task force today,2 dido class light crusier and 16 dds,i gived up and run away...
another question,how do you escape from being hunted? i was followed by one dd,it will hears me even i am rig for silent running in 1knot....what should i do?