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Originally Posted by tater
Yes to both. Hydrophones were widespread, as were DCs. The trick with the DCs is that they did not "aim" them, but rather just dropped them randomly when they knew a sub was around.
In SH4, only unit types 0-4 will use DCs. What I'd like is a way to have them drop them randomly when "warned" of a sub.
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That reminds me of a completely unrelated story. Back during the American Civil War the Union was blockading the mouth of the Mississippi river. The Confederates launched a night attack, and in the pitch black one Union ship reported that they started "firing for effect", which seems to imply that they shot blindly into the dark hoping to maybe hit something.
So it relates because I can picture the Japanese merchants dropping depth charges "for effect".
