Action in the North Atlantic

[Ca[t White]

I recently purchased Cold Waters, and I'm currently on the mission Action in the North Atlantic commanding the Sturgeon Class Submarine. What is the best tactic used going up against the escorting warships?

[Erik]

1968 or 1984? In the first, literally every warship is faster than your torpedoes, and you need to bait them to run into your torpedoes at full speed and/or pincer them with two wire-guided torps. If warships arent the target I dont even bother, I alert them with a torp, go around and chase the fleeing transports.

In 1984 torps are the way, because missiles will bring ASW missiles and helicopters right on top of you. Shoot far, dogleg the torps 4-5k yds before you turn them towards the enemy and create a gap yourself by running perpendicular to the heading of the enemy at 10 knots or so. Dont use planes more than 5 degrees or you might lose a wire, especially if your torps are more than 150 degrees from your bow. Pay attention to what the enemy does immediately after your launch as many warships have towed arrays, might be stationary and listen and so might hear you launch. If they dont hear you launch, they will fire their spread and send their helicopters to wrong direction. If they obviously hear you launch, use a MOSS and again try to create separation to the location where you fired quickly and immediately give targets to your torps, as the missiles will be on their way and you may need to go flank at any time.

[Ca[t White]

it it also possible to hit the warships head on as they come at me?

[Erik]

Yes it is, typically when they realize they are under attack all warships will immediately go flank to either evade or rush to the direction where they assume you are. You can shoot them head-on and they may not ever hear the incoming torpedo.

[Ca[t White]

When being pinged by either the warships or enemy sub, what is the best tactic to evade being pinged on their sonar?

[Bilge_Rat]

Originally Posted by Ca[t White

When being pinged by either the warships or enemy sub, what is the best tactic to evade being pinged on their sonar?

you can't avoid being pinged, all you can do is avoid being detected which occurs when the "active" sensor reading of the enemy vessel is in the 0-+10 range. I try to keep it negative.

tactics:

-keep a small profile, i.e. face your sub towards or away from the pinging escort;
-stay below the layer, either 100 feet below or as deep as possible;
-go slow.

[Ca[t White]

In this mission the merchant ships always get away and I have a hard time trying to catch up to them because im so focused on avoiding the war ships.