For those of you who say subs are overpowered leave right now. I have been using
a H-type for 8 lvls now. I have only sunk one BB, not once have I experienced the
fabled 5k credit per match or the 14k exp take per match. Most of my battles consist
of crawling across the map and hoping nobody takes it upon themselves to kill me
before I hit my targets. You may accuse me of lacking skill but never the less I have
some advice you fellow submariners may find useful.

Firstly: You get (un)lucky. Due to the mechanic whereby torpedos end up going
under ships there will be many times when you miss a vital shot that costs you the
game. You can't help it, it happens. Similarly sometimes enemy subs may miss you
because of this.

Okay lets begin with some general rules.
1. Stay Surfaced whenever possbile, if you arn't in danger surface, you need to
conserve your air for the times it is vital you stay submerged.
2. Dodge torps as much as possible rather than going to crush depth. Use crush
depth only when absolutly necessary. Recovering from crush diving wastes time, air
and hit points. Although you should still go to crush depth if you arn't 100% sure you
can dodge.
3. Don't chase targets. If your target is running away from you don't bother. Almost
everything is faster than you and your torps have short range. You'll only end up
running our of air and surface to be shot at. If you're a KM SS2 you may be able to
chase some targets as you're quite fast but everyone else shouldn't.
4. Engage at maximum range where possible. Learn to gauge how far your torps
travel before blowing up. This is to mitigate torps going under a ship as they will still
do splash damage.
5. Beware of torp bombers. Aircraft usually have bigger fish to fry but sometimes
torp bombers will attack you on a whim.
6. Use gradual shooting, and don't use more torps than you think is necessary.
Many times I've had the perfect shot lined up only to be stuck waiting for my torps to
reload. Keep one shot in the tube just in case.
7. Do not weaken your torpman or planesman. SS1s generally can't carry full
strength crew after a few lvls, however you must keep your planesman and torpman
at full strength to maximize air use and minimize torps going under targets.
8. Fools rush in. Always try to advance behind the DDs and cruisers on your team.
They'll usually run ahead of you and reveal torpwalls in advance, maybe even take a
few for you. The early battle is the most dangerous time for a sub as it has the most
potential threats to a sub. By mid to late battle most of the enemy subs, torpwaller,
and sub hunters will be dead.
9. Use torps with care, catching friendlys in the explosion will dent your exp gain.
Even if you hit the enemy cleanly.
10. It gets better. Starting an SS1 is a lame experince, your air refills at a crawl and
torps go under almost constantly. As your planesman and torpman lvl up though
these problems lessen.

Dealing with a submarine's greastest enemies.
Other Submarines:
I hate enemy subs and try to avoid them where possible, mainly because engaging
them is such a pain and wastes alot of time. This is the technique I use when I fight
them.

If I spot the sub far off I dive if I'm not already dived and fire one slow torpedo,
hopefully this will force the guy to screw up his aim trying to evade or force him to
critical dive. As I close in I fire another torp on fast mode again to freak him out or
force critical dive. If he's still alive he'll be firing back, dodge if you can only critical
dive if absolutly necessary. If you find that death is immient let off all your torps
maybe you can take him with you. If you can force the enemy to critical dive first
then just park yourself at a comfortable distance facing him and shoot him the
moment he comes out of the dive. This is why you should keep at least one torp in
reserve, two is better in case the first one goes under. If you find yourself critical
dived with the enemy waiting for you, spam the f key as you rise. Sometimes you
can get control back immediatly if you're lucky.

Anti-Sub Ships:
These guys are DDs and CLs equipped with Depth Charges and they are quite
dangerous. Normally the only indication you'll have that they arn't just another DD
looking for a scrap is that they will come straight for you. Though some are nice
enough to dispaly it in their names.

If you see a sub-hunter coming for you, you'll usaully only have one chance to take
him down. Line up your shot carefully and let rip. If you let him close he will stay on
top of you and start dropping depth charges. At this point you're screwed. You can
surface to reduce the depth charge damage (don't crit dive you won't make it in
time.) but if he's smart he'll constanly out maneuver you and you'll never get to take
another shot at him. Subs can't win a turning battle against DDs, once they close
they'll just spam depth charges till you die.

If this happens to you your only hope is that:
1. Someone else kills the anti-sub ship.
2. He kills himself with his own depth charges before he kills you.
3. He runs out of depth charges.
4. You can poke him to death with ur deck gun (if U have one)

Torp Wallers
Torp Wallers are a massive annoyance. Kill them on sight. Torp Wallers don't actively
try to kill you as most don't carry sonar, they just spam torpedos in your general
direction making it hard to move. I once lost over half my hit points critical diving to
avoid a kitas constant torp spamming. (As soon as he stopped I came up and sunk
him.)

If you can avoid the above dangers chances are you can make it to the enemy lines
and begin stalking BBs.

I wish all of you SS aptains Good luck on the glamorous yet perilous path of the
submariner.