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Old 11-14-05, 08:53 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by Hartmann
In these cases that ppl are talking about, were you ever hunted down and killed, early war, by 1 destroyer? If it is 3+ working you over then I say the game is working ok. Just my opinion.

From what i understand late war this was the ASW proceedure.

3 or more escorts form a circle around you. One would stop and listen, another would ping, another with the information from the other two would do a run. They'd take turns at it.

This seems to be how the game works. If you have the external cam enabled you can watch them do it. One will be dead stopped listening. Another will try echo ranging.. (but which one?!), another will be setting up for a run.

And therein lies the problem with manuevering, which direction do you point your sub to minmize the surface you present to return a ping? If they were persistant, they could wait you out tell lack of amps ore oxygen forced you to surface. The game however isnt that persistant from what ive seen. Diving deep and creeping along at 1 knot seems to do the trick.
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