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Last night I came across a large convoy at night, and had to set up my approach from the surface starting a few miles out. I thought for sure the destroyers would make a run for me sooner or later, but they didn't.

The destroyer patrolling the perimeter close to my location ignored my at 2,000 feet, and I dove to periscope depth and turned away from her instead of pushing my luck. At 800 feet she was still sweeping back and forth using passive sonar. I opened my stern tube doors - no response. At 600 feet, I launched a torpedo - the destroyer made no attempt to evade - just kept her pattern at medium speed. I hit her right under the keel and sunk her. The fleet started to break up and scatter - but the other two escorts did nothing!

Over the next hour I sank seven more merchants, emptying my forward tubes and half of my aft with the sub at periscope depth moving ahead 2/3rds, and my crew at battle stations. The escorts still didnn't respond.
As fast as my crew reloaded the tubes, I continued to sink the convoy until I only had four topedoes left and four ships - two escorts and two old freighters.

Since its a long way back to Pearl from the South China Sea, I thought I'd save the last four fish until I was closer to home. So I turned away from the convoy and at 7,000 meters distance and 3am I surfaced. Now, the final two escorts suddenly turned sharply and headed staight for me at high speed.

What gives? Is this common?

lol. Nice of them to wait untill you were finished before counterattacking. What mods are you running?

Sounds like something borked their passive sonar - definitely sounds like a mod confict - has this occured more than once - or was it a one time thing?

Ignored by Destroyers
 

My mods are:

• Greenlamp
• ParaB's fewer radio contacts
• ROW
• Smaller sea bed rocks
• FooBar's high res Gato/Sargo/Tambor
• John Hamm's Uniform Mod
• OAKsHudGauges

When I started my campaign from Pearl, I came acorss a convoy just North of the Mariana Islands. Sunk most of the convoy and had a really tough fight with the destroyers. Sunk three DD's w/ stern tubes, but made up for it by sinking 3 merchants with the deck gun. Since I was out of torp's and my mission was in the China Sea, I high tailed it back to Midway and reloaded before setting out.

It was later in the same mission once I was in the East China Sea that I had this incident with the apathetic destroyers.

On my way back to Midway, I had 4 torps left and ran across another convoy. Fired 3 forward tubes, damaged one freighter,and sunk another. Destroyers didn't seem to care....

Did you started using a saved game ? :hmm:

Red are you back, tell me you have 1.4 installed :yep:
Sorry for the mini-hijack :oops:, carry on.


RDP

Yes... i am installing a ton of personalized mods now !

Welcome back Redwine!

Berinhardt - nothing in the mod list would affect enemy ai or sensors - possibly a corrupt save game? What type escorts were they? Are you up to 1.4 patch? My thoughts are you may have run across a random, and rare - glitch. Best of luck.

Ignored by Destroyers
 

Yes, I am running the 1.4 patch and it is a saved game.

I believe the destroyers were Fubuki class.

Interesting bug...

That may be the problem....

Try to not save games... just try to play mission up to its final.

Ahoy Redwine!!!......what personal mods are you installing? Would you like to share?:hmm: Glad to see you are back.