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Originally Posted by iambecomelife
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Originally Posted by panthercules
I only made one patrol to the East Coast, where I managed to find and sink only a couple of lone merchants (small coastal and a C2) around Boston - When I tried to head into NY I found nothing but tons of DDs and Elco/PT boats, eventually getting killed by some uber-early-radar-toting 4-stacker DD that somehow spotted me as soon as I surfaced at all-ahead-slow at 2am on a moonless night from 6,800m away 
So much for the Second Happy Times 
Now I'm on my second patrol in my Type IIA in October 1939, so it looks like it'll be a while before I get to see the East Coast again. |
What random and scripted layer mods are you using? The American escorts ought to be utterly incompetent up until maybe late 1942 or 43. What's more, there seem to be excessive #'s of destroyers available to the allies during the Happy Times. These elite crews and heavy patrols simply bear no resemblence to reality. In fact there were barely any large escorts available, and the heavy single merchant traffic to most major U.S. ports was nearly defenceless. |
Yeah - that's what I was figuring too - I was sorely disappointed to find that 4-stacker bearing down on me from 6,800m away like that, and I was still too shallow to survive it when he got to me and started dropping his DCs
(In fact, I was so ticked at the time that I actually did some research to try to figure out if he might have had some radar to spot me with, but everything I found indicated that it was highly unlikely that he would have been able to spot me from that range even if he had been equipped with the surface radar available at that time, but I just chalked it up to bad luck/game glitch and started another career anyway.)
IIRC, I was not running any mods other than some crew graphic and sound/speech/radio traffic mods at the time - just plain 1.4b - I'm not absolutely sure about that because I had been having some CTD problems with RUB 1.41/1.42 for some reason and was experimenting back and forth a bit with and without RUB back when this happened a few weeks ago.