Tides of War

Nah, it's not the nicest mission.

The easiest way to kill them off: they come in two groups of three most of the times. Keep the three you're concentrating on together, this is quite important. If you split them and one gets away, you can restart.

Also a very important thing is to keep steering slightly to the far side of your target. This not only keeps them together, but most importantly, if you go straight at them, you cannot use all your guns. This sucks major, because two guns firing will finish them off MUCH faster. It pins them down. So keep a decent angle at all times. You will still have plenty of torpedo-dodging room. Don't let them intimidate you into 'making yourself small'. It's self-defeating.

Maybe that's the hidden lesson....

Yes , they are not so effective , they can be avoided fairly easily.

I usually target the 4" gun on the farthest , in case it gets away .

Here is another mission that leaves a lot to be desired. Go up against 6 boats that run twice as fast as you can, kill 5 and you fail the mission. That would be ok I guess if you can?t kill the 6th boat but to have the boat just disappear is absurd. I spent hours looking for the last boat and couldn?t find it. When they scatter you have no chance.

Whoever designed this mission has blown it and is the worst mission in this game that I am aware of. I have finished USA Sub and Brit Sub which has its tough missions but this rates a minus 10. As I stated before some of these missions were made by people who cannot play games so they design near impossible situations to make themselves feel good, shame on them.

IGN Surface Mission 4

Not a really fair comment, I'd say. The mission is sink them *all*. Your objective is not to lose any of them. They are not strictly gone, just incredibly hard to find back, btw. They move to two locations when you do lose them (see other posts here), and you have to be lucky even then to find them back. They are fast, and small.

Annoying maybe, but not poorly set up, or unfair. You do not have any satellites to help you in 1937.

Here is another mission that leaves a lot to be desired. Go up against 6 boats that run twice as fast as you can, kill 5 and you fail the mission. That would be ok I guess if you can?t kill the 6th boat but to have the boat just disappear is absurd. I spent hours looking for the last boat and couldn?t find it. When they scatter you have no chance.
Whoever designed this mission has blown it and is the worst mission in this game that I am aware of. I have finished USA Sub and Brit Sub which has its tough missions but this rates a minus 10. As I stated before some of these missions were made by people who cannot play games so they design near impossible situations to make themselves feel good, shame on them. 

IGN Surface Mission 4

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(T-443)  American torpedo boats are operating along your planned course.  You are authorized to defend yourself as vigorously as conditions warrant.  If they come at you, sink them all.

07:06:43 - Mission started at 17.10.35N, 74.36.57W
07:16:23 - Destroyed PTG 14 with a 4in deck gun round N at 1400 meters.
07:31:10 - Destroyed PTG 11 with a 3in deck gun round WSW at 500 meters.
07:32:48 - Destroyed PTG 10 with a 3in deck gun round NNW at 700 meters.
07:35:15 - Destroyed PTG 9 with a 3in deck gun round ESE at 2700 meters.
07:53:55 - Destroyed PTG 12 with a 4in deck gun round NW at 1100 meters.
08:22:28 - Mission failed at 17.17.34N, 74.37.13W

Planes Destroyed: 0

Ships Sunk: 5

Total Tonnage Sunk: 385

Mission terminated in the wake of your surrender.  Though disappointed, your superiors count this loss as part of the fortunes of war.

amen to that, comrade. i've played this game several times already, and just when i'm about to bag the last one, it disappears. very bad.

A suggestion, follow the track it left on - remember it has limited range and will likely have to stop to refuel....or run out of fuel...

thanks. i almost followed that suggestion, and improvised by writing down it's position before i went to hunt the other ptgs.

A suggestion, follow the track it left on - remember it has limited range and will likely have to stop to refuel....or run out of fuel...

lol one problem with that east i noticed was that i had one group of 3 (after killing the others). Heading right towards me and as it hit 1000m it dissapeared from my display and i couldnt find it.

I beat this mission after a few tries. The 4 inch gun seems to be alot more accurate (at long ranges at least) when the ship is pointed toward the target, or perhaps it was just front-back motion and not left-right motion that made the gun more accurate? I nailed five of them, and the last one retreated NW, so I just set my course to NW and alt-tabbed to read some other forums, etc. I just waited for the klaxon to sound, and when it did I just set it to engage target and let the AI do the work from there on.

I actually beat this mission on the 2nd try, and *loved* it! Of course, I made generous use of the spectator view to avoid the torps! I thoroughly enjoyed that mission. In fact, I need to play it again, as it would make a great ERT movie.