The people that moan that the DD are hopeless and can't find you in the early years, if you read as I did, The Battle of the Atlantic By Andrew Williams there are sections of that book where they have Uboat and DD war diaries and how the DD's struggled to find uboats during attacks. One entry from an officer on a brittish DD said the best hope of sinking a uboat was if one of the other boats in the wolf pack torps hit one of there own. He stated that the ASDIC they had was pretty hopeless, his and the words of merchant seamen on these convoys said it was just about impossible most of the time at night to see a Uboat on the suface that was making its way through a convoy.
On the other side ,in the same book in Kretschmer's war diary, states that on moon lit or clear nights the british use of Star shells was pretty useless.
But even without these mods, if you are within the "sight" circle of an armed merchant or DD then every other shell either hits or hits the water that close is damages the hull, yet when you read what really happened, the watch on these merchant ships would only spot a Uboat at night on the surface by luck. And in the early years it was much the same with the DD and there Asdic.
So I don't see why the hue and cry to get these mods to have DD dropping DC's from the off and hunting you down not stop. As stated in that book from both sides, it wasn't until much later that this happened.
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