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Originally Posted by Indiana_Jones
Agreed.
Sometimes they seem to run straight to you, even if you didn't use electric eels 
Granted, last night I fired a steam eel at a largo cargo in the med that had 2 escorts, the ship saw it at the last mintue, flood lights on, hard to starboard, but the fish hit her right in the prop! dead in water! 
But the 2 frigates with her drove around in circles for 2 hours looking for me, but they never did or drop one DC 
Needless to say I finished the girl off after they left with a stern shot  |
i agree INDY
i've had the same thing happen to me also...this is why i'm not venting about this....gwx modelles this behaviour very well....sometime's the escorting ships are pretty "green" which leave you with an easier kill....while later in the war they are much more veteran/experienced....i love it.
what i'm getting at...and it's not a gwx/sh3 gripe...is that u-boats were detected but had options on surface,...having ypur stealth meter turning red ingame brings hell immediately...which in many cases was true...but..there were time's i assume that the u-boat had the advantage of curvature of earth-/ visibility,- heavy seas to stay on surface at times
while the escorts didn't nessiceraly have the time to warn the convoy to change course ,- direction etc.
in a nutshell...while watching films like DAS BOOT etc...the captain will suddenly find a escort starboard out of nowhere, turn dive, surface, flank speed, manouver, dive, etc...cat and mouse stuff..where ingame it's pretty much shoot,- dive, s*** yourself for hours.
i know that later in trhe war, the defenses were such , that this opton was pointless, with improved asdic etc...and terror from above causing endless suffering, but i woner how these commanders manouvered their boats to such great effect!
as i say,,this is not a gripe, i love how the defenses improve historically over time...gwx is forever in my heart for that...aircraft improvment is vital too.....something that i cant get enough of...it's just that surface option are limited...which i know is the original game engine fault...not the modders
cant believe i've ranted on so mutch over one simple question at the start of this post......too much brandy!!!
P.S i've managed to add another sh3 addict to the list...some poor bugger at work.....he fell for my ramblings..hook,line and sinker:rotfl::rotfl: