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ddiplock · 07-04-11, 03:11 PM

I'm beginning to question if there is much point in going real deep in the later years of the war, December 43 to be exact.

I had an encounter last night, was in the process of ambushing a small 6 ship convoy, my first patrol with RSRD for TMO. Anyway, its night time, pitch black all is well, I increase the TC and probably screwed up the AI as they once again amazingly knew I was there!!

Attack all gone to hell, never mind. I begin the process of evading these two sub chasers who were escorting the convoy in my Balao. Going all the way down to some 600ft, but not being able to go any deeper because the latest version of TMO has the "planes on deep dive" feature removed. So, no matter what boat you are in, you're actually limited to a 600ft depth because that is as deep as the dial in the conning tower goes.

Anyway, I just could not shake these two sub chasers. For over 45 minutes real time I turned left right left right left right going every which way in an attempt to shake them, diving well below the thermal layer and trying to get avenues of escape, but never managing to shake them.

The end result? I actually got so sick of the constant pinging from the sonar, I quit the game and gave up!

It seems that no matter what you do, they ALWAYS find you no matter how deep you go, and there's nothing you can do to shake them.

07-04-11, 03:11 PM	#1
ddiplock Samurai Navy Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Scotland, UK Posts: 552 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	Much point going deeper?? I'm beginning to question if there is much point in going real deep in the later years of the war, December 43 to be exact. I had an encounter last night, was in the process of ambushing a small 6 ship convoy, my first patrol with RSRD for TMO. Anyway, its night time, pitch black all is well, I increase the TC and probably screwed up the AI as they once again amazingly knew I was there!! Attack all gone to hell, never mind. I begin the process of evading these two sub chasers who were escorting the convoy in my Balao. Going all the way down to some 600ft, but not being able to go any deeper because the latest version of TMO has the "planes on deep dive" feature removed. So, no matter what boat you are in, you're actually limited to a 600ft depth because that is as deep as the dial in the conning tower goes. Anyway, I just could not shake these two sub chasers. For over 45 minutes real time I turned left right left right left right going every which way in an attempt to shake them, diving well below the thermal layer and trying to get avenues of escape, but never managing to shake them. The end result? I actually got so sick of the constant pinging from the sonar, I quit the game and gave up! It seems that no matter what you do, they ALWAYS find you no matter how deep you go, and there's nothing you can do to shake them.