SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - Perspective from a complete newbie :(

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Originally Posted by poetic hunter (Post 1498689)

Thanks for your understanding. Speaking of learning from mistakes, I just had a Das Boot moment. I attacked a ship from periscope depth, and instead of running away the thing started charging towards me! Before I knew it, it was right on top of me and smashed my deck and flak guns to oblivion. I decided to dive down below, and rig for silent running, but the ship started pinging for me. I heard beep beep until, boom. Depth charges took out my sonar and radio. Then I started leaking in my command room. I was surprised that the game actually depicted the water coming out from the pipes in the command room. Very nice touch there. Unfortunately, there was no way to recover from that "mistake." I lost my entire crew to the merciless depths of the never-ending blue.

This is the very first time I ever got attacked by a (destroyer?), so there was definitely something wrong with my previous installation. I'm having a lot more intense but fun moments on my patrol this time around. In fact, I've had more encounters on this one patrol, than I had in about seventeen patrols on my previous installation. :o

Thats good. general rule of thumb, especially if you have GWX. dont attack destroyers, I dont like doing it even in deep water, I tried it once and I may try it again just to see if I can sink them but as far as being depthcharged goes heres what I understand.

1) Face him head on (presents the smallest target
2) run silent and manually set for 1 knot (so you run under 50 rpms and he cant 'hear' you
3)dive as deep as possible
3) when he makes his run (when you hear depth charges hit the water) change depth, and crank up to full speed, then do a hard knuckle left or right, depending on which way he turns after the attack, but as soon as you evade the DCs level out and kick it back down to 1 knot.

Am I correct to you older more experienced Kaulens?

And if you need help PH, like I said just send a PM and I'll try and help ya out