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Originally Posted by oRGy
Interesting find CB: But I believe the realistic setting for them losing you on hydophones is about 12knots.
In an old thread, there was a post by "ridgewayranger" on the topic of sonar - he was an ex-RN sonar operator who was on a DD in '48. He noted:
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Over about 12 knots background water noise masked everything else, and there was the risk of damaging the underwater dome, which had to be raised before speed could be increased. Hope this explains some of the real limitations of submarine detection in WW2.
Jim O
Ex.TASI, Royal Navy.
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So that setting can be set to 12, which should cure your armed trawler problem. I may actually do this myself for the Improved U-Boat mod. |
he he!! what you have to carefull of here is wether the AI will understand that it has to travel slightly slower to retain hydrophone contact or wether it will still behave as if the max speed is 15 which would un-balance the AI ASW tactics..might not ..so worth experimenting with...
you actually might get better results without altering the ships top speeds by experimenting with small increase in the noise level..as the guy said regarding the back ground noise level...im assuming that this is what the noise entry refers to...certainly lowering the entry really sharpens up the DD's hydrophone capabilitys enourmously..
mind you do we know the historically accurate top speed of an armed trawler?---might be worth checking that as well..i'm not a fan of stats for stats sake so i tend to go with what helps in purely gameplay terms..
a bit of both is whats required most times..
for example setting the speed entry lower as you say as long as the AI can cope with it..may actually simulate the effect of the DC's blanketing out the contacts for a longer period of time as the DD's have to speed up to stay safe from the DC explosions..a lower speed will mean that it wil take longer before their phones become use-able again
what is needed is an idea of the slowest minimum speed the slowest dd's use in order to set the speed just above that setting..maybe this would encourage more tactical "creeping" attacks or it might just confuse the AI entirely..as it might behave the same no matter what settings are used..
COL!!! if i know you yull bounce every-one one day with your genius !!don't hide it under a bushel as they say!!
