Fog - What the

[Harmsway!]

Chasing down a sonar contact and I surface for a high speed intercept in the fog. I'm in pursuit for almost an hour and have no visual. Next thing I know the whole task force lights up the radio with sightings of me. What the? How is it that they can see me through the fog yet I can't see them?

[jwilliams]

I beleave the radio messages that TDW added are for immerision. They do not mean you have been spotted. It's just a random chance to produce message whether you've been spotted or not.

[Catfish]

Hello,
which year ? From 1943 on .. lots of radar installed even on older ships, and lots of "sightings" :D

But they will not exactly know what that blip is. In reality, running surfaced at the same speed and course as a convoy, they probably would not even find you by radar.

And radar does not work under 1000 meters, so you are pretty secure in fog. And - Flower class corvettes and sloops with their 15-16 knots are slower than you, so you can run away from those.

When i ended the Gibraltar single mission i ran surfaced through the fog with 18 knots, zig-zagging past destroyers which might have seen me for 5 seconds, until i was gone again in the fog. If this hiding works in SH5 ... good !

Greetings,
Catfish

[Harmsway!]

I beleave the radio messages that TDW added are for immerision. They do not mean you have been spotted. It's just a random chance to produce message whether you've been spotted or not.

You are absolutely right. I was able to sneak up and take several of them down using the fog to my advantage. The cool thing is when I did get in there with them where they could see me the radio messages lit up again. This time for real. This gave a sense of tension between myself and a living breathing enemy. This is the first time I felt this way in the SH series.

[Harmsway!]

Happy Days - July 1940