Yesterday I got into a weird situation. Sunk Ark Royal then I was waiting at long distance for the escorts to calm down and leave the crime scene. After 3 hours later they were still circling and searching for me, so I decided to sneak out on silent running. After I was at the visual range limit, somehow one of the escorts got my track. This was the last time I saw the sky for the next 2 days.
No matter what I did, they were all over me. Decoys, all engines stop, slow running at max depth.. nothing worked. After 2 days I surfaced on max speed for few seconds just th refresh the air. Got badly damaged but I survived. But was no use, after the next 2 days I had to give up, they even called reinforcements with fresh loads of DC's.
Now.. this is pretty realistic and usually in this case death is the final result. The only problem is that this happened in 39' where the detection tools were pretty primitive. This scenario in 43'-45' era is realistic, but in 39... not sure. Also, this was a usual escort group with no hunter-killer ships like the Black Swan in it.
Anyway, huge improvement on the gameplay, no doubt about. It's almost a different game.
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