Nice story... this scenario is posible today... in future if you will be hunt by more than 3 DDs you are as good as dead:
1) irai32 by TDW (stil wip) is evil... if you are hunt by HK... one of them will not move and just waith to see your position and report for others
they have some fatigue time but until they decide to be ''tired'' you will be dead (this behavior is also in irai30)
2) Fix 0.18 (still wip) take care about the damage part produced by DC... now the damage produce by DC it is a joke... in future will be immersive... so DC will produce a lot of damages on you (first they will scrap yours engines in general)... after that you will be not able to move like before and they will put DC a bit more precise on you.. so you will have no chance to exacape...
In my opinion to attack capital ships will be a kamikaze mission in future (and i will say that is very realistic)... zedi is taking care to match ours campaigns with the new immersive mods and we will not have anymore missions like the one to sunk a capital ship or a aircraft career
The best tactic when i hunt a capital ship is the ''hit and run'' method... but somethimes even with this method i get caught
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Originally Posted by Xrundel
To stoianm:
Yesterday night I finally come across task force with battleship in it. While I was chasing them beyond detection range (but with new hydrophone mod I could not detect them as well if surfaced - so I had to dive every 15 minutes) they change curse twice, pissing me off royally.
Anyway, I ordered my torpedo man to preheat eels and nailed 3 out of 4 fired torpedoes into battleship ending her glorious days.
I didn't want any more blood and decided to dive early hoping to get away with my dirty deeds.
it took about 40 minutes for 16 DD's and two remaining capital ships to locate me and they started pound depth charges at me mercilessly. I still pretending that I am not there but hull start take some damage and I had to maneuver to avoid total disaster. I've heard some collisions above me but their numbers still high. I was waiting for night to be over, so I can see better in day light if I will have to surface.
Next morning CO was about 18% and I decided to get some fresh air.
"Rudder hard to port! Extreme speed ahead! Periscope depth!"
I started descent form darkness in spiral to prevent destroyers align for deadly ramming. Periscope all way up - you need some luck not to run into one in first seconds.
If you think that depth charging crazy Russian in command of German submarine in 1941 is a picnic - think again  . That's what I left on the surface after 10 minutes of zigzagging on periscope depth and surface for a second to refresh and dive before any shells could hit me:
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