The merchant would have to turn to bring its forward gun to bear, so you zig zagged to the other side of it, and while the merchant was in a blind spot for its gun, you could get off three or four rounds before having to zigzag back, as the mmerchant turned again. My favourite method of taking on a merchantmen was to chase one on the surface from behind. I always kept my surface gun at the REAR of the vessel as well. I could get those 'waterline' hits more often than not. I noticed that even the most expert crews for the gun would not hit the target ships all the time like I could, and some shells used to sail right over the target when we were under 200 feet away from it. The game always served you up with a dud when you were just about to sink a ship.Īnother thing I did was NEVER leave the surface gun to the crew to operate. A fire more than one torpedoe at a time, and you could be sure as hell that one of the two, or three torp spread was going to be a dud. I used to think that this was programmed into the game for the frequency that it used to happen. Sometimes, well a lot of the time really, 'duds' would occur when the ship I was shooting at was on its last 'shot' before going under. I tried to give a medal to each section, and then to the man below him.I never quite figured out what the 'right' method was, nor if medals improved performance at all.Īnother thing I remembered was that I would not use magnetic detonators for torpegoes at all, figuring that the number of 'duds' would bbe minimised. So I settled on giving the damage control party each a medal first, then the lookouts, and then the ranking officer in each section, first, followed byu the people under him. giving a medal for getting a wound was not, but I never quite figured out how the medals SHOULD have been distributed, because they had to have done something to deserve them right? Thatas the only timwe I would move people from damage control to anywhere else. You had to leave a couple of spots in damage control free just in case you got wounded. You could gradually replace people throughout the vessel, especially in the rearward torpedoe rooms.

Noothing prevented me from doing that, and the submarine seemed to work fine just the same. You 'bought' NCOS who were better than that later keeping the best in damage control there all the time. I used to fill up my Damage Control section with mostly zero renown Luitenants, people that had high ratings, some who were electricians and some who were mechanics. When starting a new bboat, you can get new crew members, quite a few of them, for zero renown.

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