Hard to remember everything about stock...if you're not using mods, but one torp usually sunk every dd, maybe a premature.
The one DD that lags behind usually is stopped, so it's listening. The most important thing is water conditions. If waters are calm, in mods they can hear 10,000 yards plus. Also, you don't know they're there unless you use cams, but sometimes no sonar contact, they don't show on cams, course you have the free cam.
I play often with cams and contacts off. What I will do is get a good distance, then turn at some angles to check my baffles. I'll then do a sonar sweep, then I'll stay at silent at 1 kt and come up to scope depth while hitting track nearest warship. That way the sonarman will let me know if something is coming.
I save my torps for merchants when I can. I just tracked a group for 3 hours...takes that long with contacts and cams off. Thought I had a perfect set up, but they heard me..here come 2 Type AB escorts and one Katori light crusier ASW...and me stuck in shallow water. Problem is you can't ID them until you can see them with cams off. I had no choice, so I sunk all three with DTT shots...lucky me, playing TMO 1.9. You don't want to get caught in the shallows with Type AB's on top of you...course I don't think they're in stock....
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