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Originally Posted by 0rpheus
Hehe, might have been doing the same thing I was.. dropping to 150m, ordering silent running... and then wondering how the hell they were following me everywhere I went. Turns out 'silent running' isn't the only thing you need to do - drop your speed with the 'advanced' controls (where you're given a speed bar) to about half a knot (not the one knot silent running gives you, do this after ordering it).
The idea is to keep your screw rpm below 50. There are rpm gauges in the Engine Room & Conning Tower so you can see when you've achieved it. If you do, you'll be much, much harder to hear. It won't *always* save your bacon, but it's a damn sight more effective than just silent running on its own.
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You're exactly right, Orpheus... I was crash-diving (even right after launching the torps) and going to silent running @ 1kt around 150 m and wondering how those murderous DDs were still able to dog me...
Speaking of DDs dogging me. I've noticed several times that I'll get a DD "tagging along"- not close to me (more like 8-10km away), and try as I might to get away he'll follow me even hundreds of kilometers on the main map! I can change direction and he'll just adjust, every time I'll stop he'll engage in a circular search pattern 8 km away; if I go north he'll just move the search pattern north by the same increment of my movement... it seems like a bug to me. I've decided to sink him tonight after dragging him all the way up off the north west coast of Ireland...