Alaska..questions

[Armistead]

I've seldom gone north. I have noticed thermal layers are very shallow. I take it the game programs colder water, so pretty cool. I'm just south of taking on the small carrier group that attacked Dutch Harbor.
The TL was at 70 ft. Doe's the game program the shallower the TL the better it is?

Time...I know if I'm around the north pole, only about a hour of daylight in the winter. It appears the daytime is set to work, although not sure of the time schedule. Anyone knows how correct it is. I was chasing this group and it was about 330 in the morning and the sun came out...caught me off guard as I was too close...

[rein1705]

I'm currently in an S-boat up there in FOTRS. Its june and daytime lasts forever it seems. As for TL's there at 85ft where i am around Attu. Last night i Had an incredibly fun (but foolish) jack-in-the-box like attack i carried out on a DD and an old subchaser it seemed no matter what i did they couldn't find me below 120ft! :D

So i had one torpedo in this encounter and i put it into the DD (Minkazi?) The DD stops dead after about a half hour finally on fire. I run 2miles out away from the subchaser on the other side of the DD and surface. Attack with my deck gun. 12 shots into him and i have to submerge because here comes the subchaser roaring this way. Casually i motor right under him and repeat the same move on the other side FOUR! (4) times in a row until the DD explodes and sinks and i slink out of the area with the worlds stupidest subchaser saying "which way did he go George? which way did he go?"
:arrgh!:

[CCIP]

Well, in the real world latitude doesn't have anything directly to do with thermal layers. Currents are much more important in that regard, and no, the game does not model any sort of real variation in thermal layers. It's always a set number at a given depth that serves as a static modifier to detection probability; naturally the shallower it is, the better.

[Armistead]

Strange, thought the colder the water the better and seems the TL would be shallower in colder water up north. Everywhere I've been up here the TL is above 100ft, sometimes you have one at scope depth. Never say that south...