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Originally Posted by Pistitom
Gentlemen, I have two questions....I just began my first campaign and already got into trouble...I was preparing for a convoy attack at pd, daylight, about 4500m. distance when the escorts initiated a coordinated attack on me...they had asdic...1940..and one of them kept following me ALL DAY and all night...couldn't recharge batteries...probably my evasive maneuvers weren't effective  ....How could this chain of events even occur????
My second question refers to ports...I never got a patrol mission to ports...This depends on my own decisions? |
Asdic was invented during the WWI period and already fitted aboard many escorts prior to the outbreak of hostilities in WWII
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By 1918, both the U.S. and Britain had built active systems, though the British were well in advance of the US. They tested their ASDIC on HMS "Antrim" in 1920, and started production in 1922. The 6th Destroyer Flotilla had ASDIC-equipped vessels in 1923. An anti-submarine school, HMS "Osprey", and a training flotilla of four vessels were established on Portland in 1924. The U.S. Sonar QB set arrived in 1931. By the outbreak of World War II, the Royal Navy had five sets for different surface ship classes, and others for submarines, incorporated into a complete anti-submarine attack system.
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Port raiding was not carried out very often in RL, hence it is not automatically included in the game.