First Official Patrol in OM..not so great, need advice.

[Bubblehead1980]

September 1, 1940...2nd Flotilla Lorient.

Was assigned to a grid off Iceland.Found nothing there after a couple weeks so ventured out into North Atlantic looking for convoys.A convoy report came in and I raced ahead.I know I was near said convoy at one point because of the lag(game lags some before contact is made) but never made contact, mustve stayed just outside the deck watch's view.Rest of patrol was nothing.I headed back towards Iceland for one more sweep before heading home since fuel was getting low.I spotted a medium modern passenger/freighter and closed.Fired two G7E torpedos.One was a dud(knew germans had trouble with magnetic exploders but didnt know they had contact problems, when do they end?) The second hit and left the ship a burning but still afloat hulk.I surfaced and used the deck gun to put some holes in here.She eventually went down.I headed home to Lorient and made Port On 31 October 1940, 59 days after leaving port.


So need some advice....when are there a lot of convoys in North Atlantic? Anyone know some good grids? I studied some of the intel that came with OM, I was in the shipping lanes but just one convoy.

Also, with torpedos limited, would like to follow a one torpedo, one ship policy as I once read about on of the great U Boat Aces did(believe it was Otto Kretschmer) is this possible in game? Noticed German torpedos pack a nice punch.

[Ducimus]

AM52?

http://www.u-historia.com/uhistoria/...afia/mapas.htm

edit:

Actually........

Try outside of Halifax given that your in a type 9.

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

AM52?

http://www.u-historia.com/uhistoria/...afia/mapas.htm

edit:

Actually........

Try outside of Halifax given that your in a type 9.

Found a large convoy off Halifax.Do some convoys form up in the area and loiter before heading to England? The convoy was moving slow and very unorganized.I nailed two large tankers and was moving at flank speed inside the convoy before finally had to dive when a DD decided to investigate the explosions and fires.Entire deck watch was killed by a lucky shot from the DD(was around 5000 Meters away) Soem depth charges banged my sub up but I made it home with 38K tons down.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

Found a large convoy off Halifax.Do some convoys form up in the area and loiter before heading to England?

Insert famous Halifax convoy forming picture here:

http://www.canadianbattlefieldsfound...ern_Canada.htm

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Insert famous Halifax convoy forming picture here:

http://www.canadianbattlefieldsfound...ern_Canada.htm

I know little about the ATO and U boat war but have def seen that photo before.

Going to try and stay with OM for a while but I'm already jonesing for TMO...lol.