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Originally Posted by Seminole
On the other hand...  ..... if bottoming your boat always allowed you to avoid being detected and depth charged...well...think about it....  ...what would that do to game play?
One could stay in waters 300 meters deep or less and virtually remove destroyers as a threat.
But I get your point..it would be nice to be able to pull the bottoming out trick once in a while. Just as cool would be the ability to play dead and send up an oil slick with debris...including dead crewmembers...but I ain't holding my breath for that one either. |
Bottoming in this game is a lot easier than one where it had a real contour of the ocean floor. If you're in 25-50m of water bottoming wouldn't be my first option unless I had major damage to repair, even then the amount of noise for repairs will attract the DD anyways.
Even when you do successfully bottom the boat, you're last know coordinates are really close to where you've ended up; so in reality you're just shot yourself in the foot. you know they're gonna roll some more charges before they leave anyways. Now if you were 300m away imo
you should be safe.
Bottoming is always a gamble and another tactic for the commander, its not a trumph car to make the boat invisible, and never should be. Also just being 200m+ under doesn't make you safe, I've been charged with sniper precision in Gibraltor at 350m by a single DD.
That is what really got me flared up; that a boat is able to know my exact location 1/4 of a mile underwater with my ship bottomed (and with no previous surface contact).