I'm immortal so I come back to life :lol:

Oh, New-Age guy, huh? I excommunicate you, too!:rotfl:

Curious perspective.

When are people going to learn? God doesn't give a monkeys about us lot down here, hence the reason he gave us free will!!

She sure did! :yep:

No, free will shows he does care about what we do. Since we have a choice, what we do is an indication of who we are, are priorities and weither not we place his expectations at the forefront of our daily existence, interactions/relationships with others.

Free will means we can either choose him or choose not to. Those who choose him are chosen back :)

Silent Running does not mean you are "silent" or undetectible. The button is not a starship cloaking shield. Neither is the layer. Even with both you can be tracked and attacked. If you have a visual contact through the scope or a sound contact, they cannot be "over the horizon" in this game though you can hear contacts beyond visual range. Just as you can hear them, there is a chance they can also hear you.
-Pv-

Behold for I am Njord! God of the sea and you are in my domain! Your petty popes will cower to the mighty storms I will batter your boats with. Fear me for my wrath and beg for mercy.

Those that give offerings of IJN warships and merchants shall be SAVED! Those who perish in my domain will be given a second chance (and a third, forth, fifth depending on how much of a noob you are.)

But those who refuse my offer and join me for eternity will reach valhala! (only to be sent away and reborn as yet another skipper)

These are my words, this is my law.

yours divinely,
Njord
Pagan god of sailers, sea commerce and the coast.

:arrgh!:

They were identified as being at long range, thats atleast 10km i believe as mentioned in the manual. They were heading in at high and then medium speeds from long range. I seriously doubt they'd be able to detect me deep under the layer, silent running at 2kts from over 10km using passive sonar in 41. Even if they keyed in on my last bearing, or assuming they did better and they solved for my track and speed to intercept, they still would have been miles away on a differnet course and speed by the time they got there.

I tend to believe the ships I ran into were ships sitting and sleeping at the location I surfaced. The standard speed ascent and surface may have certainly gotten the attention of an alerted crew, but Ive read of subs doing much more amoungst a convoy at night...granted the escorts were underway.

I can accept the idea of a sitting hunter-killer grouping getting the jump on me, but Im not sure i accept the idea that a hunter-killer group would be sitting stationary, engines off in a combat zone. I cant accept the hunter-killer group was from a distant location that magically homed in on me under the conditions. British passive sonar wasnt even that good at that point in the war.

I assume you'd enjoy alter offerings of frozen fruits, peaches and ice cream? ...maybe the occasional cake or pie?