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Attacking on the surface...NOT! - 8/5/2002 1:20:43 AM

Yamamoto

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I know that the 1.20 patch increased the chance that subs would be forced to dive when attacking ships on the surface, but I think some situations are a bit unusual. I�ve had situations where my sub was attacking an unescorted AK ship on the surface and it was forced to dive. That seems a bit odd, but I could live with that IF the sub then tried to make an underwater attack. Instead, it makes no attack at all. To me, that�s worse than not even sighting the enemy ship because escorts would still get a shot at my sub ( if there had been any escorts ).

Other sub-related comments/questions:

Does a sub ever have a chance of attacking more than one ship in a task force? I�ve never seen this happen.

If you put more than one sub in a task force do they all have a chance of attacking? If so, is there a chance they will attack the same ship? If the answer to both questions is �yes� then it seems like wolfpacks would be preferred over single sub task forces. I would prefer to sink one ship rather than damage two.

Yamamoto

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Wolf packs work - 8/5/2002 2:49:11 AM

Wasp

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Hi,
I use a two sub wolfpack and it has been quite effective. As for your comment on the rather odd happenings with subs not attacing on the surface, I agree with you. I put a post in the thread for patch 1.3 about that. I think you should be able to tell your sub commanders not to attack on surface since you know it's only going to fail. I had ALL of my surface attacks on unescorted transports thwarted after updating to the 1.2 patch. It would be nice too if they added a follow enemy TF option as well, so that subs would try to follow a specified TF.

As for your two questions the answers are yes. The two wolf pack subs do attack. ( I had one turn where 3 wolf pack TFs attacked 5 ships sinking 3, and eventually the rest would sink on its way)

(in reply to Yamamoto)

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