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Originally Posted by Admiral8Q
I find 40 to 50 feet is safe even in the shallowest waters on time compression.
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I just completed the War Patrol mission which tasks you with dropping off a spy and I spent a lot of time at that depth. At one point my depth below keel ping reported five feet! (Actually I never considered who might be around to hear that ping! Good safety tip thanks Admiral)
I spent a tense few minutes trying to decide whether or not I was going to run into a large rock on the sea bed. I was studying it from all angles as the sub swam closer and right up until the last second I couldn't decide whether or not I was going to get my whiskers through!
In the end I got by by the merest squeak, but subsequently I wonder if the rocks actually do pose a simulated danger anyway, since I must have passed many more large ones when I wasn't watching and I can't have been lucky every time.
A lot of the water in the latter part of that mission is shallow and three or four times I found myself diving to periscope depth on the report of a plane. I wondered whether periscope depth would be deep enough to hide me to be honest, but using my cheating external view ( I do love my external views) I went as high as I could and found that I couldn't see the sub. Of course whether it follows that the simulated plane couldn't either...well that'd be another matter I guess. But that said, I'd have to admit I couldn't see the plane either, although I could hear it.
I managed to make it to the objective relatively unscathed though and the spy was safely put ashore in his rubber raft. I say "relatively" because I did have a small dent in the hull I think, due to my own stupidity.
During one of those shallow plane avoiding dives I got a message and instead of pressing "M" to read it, I instinctively hit "C" as in "communications" (at least in my head!) which of course is Crash Dive!!
By the time I'd countermanded the order (Belay that crash dive order ya scurvy dogs!!.. Ok..so no idea why my American Sub Commander just stepped out of Pirates of the Caribbean.
) I'd already hit the sea bed and there was water spraying from those valves in the control room. You know the ones? The ones that always seem to start spraying in movies, so that the sailors can rush around turning them off!
Actually I didn't manage to work out how to turn them off at all and they happilly showered my charts from that point until the end of the mission. I decided assigning a repair crew might be the thing, but I couldn't seem to find anything broken to fix. But on the plus side it was rather atmospheric... until for some reason I got Gene Kelly "Singing in the Rain" stuck in my head and that just ruined it!
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Originally Posted by Admiral8Q
I find, early in the game, that if you get two planes incoming on radar then it is Zero's. Those are tough and it's better to dive. A lone one is usually a Betty. If I'm in a rush, I dive to 40'/45' until it's past. Otherwise I take control of the AAA gun and give it hell. If I don't destroy it, I at least send it off in flames!
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Won't he go tell his mates where you are though?
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