[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by JimmyS1985

IFor example, is it a good idea to turn while you submerge, to avoid depth charges?

Best practice is to dive deep as soon as you're discovered, then change course and go to silent speed. I don't know if you can hear the propellors in the game like you can in SH3, but if so as soon as you hear them and then hear them speed up it's time to go to flank speed, turn hard one way or the other and change your depth by 20 meters or so. Once they start going off (hopefully somewhere other than where you are) it's time to go back to silent speed and go straight ahead again. In the movie they wouldn't go to flank until the charges were going off on top of them, which is a good way to get killed. In fact, in the movie they kept showing external shots of charges going off so close any one of them would have cracked the pressure hull and killed them all right then and there. Anything for a dramatic scene, I guess.

I always went down and kept on my course. I haven't had enough depth charges dropped on me to find out if thats a very n00b tactic. How do I get full rudder, instead of getting the rudder to turn only 5 degrees at a time?

I think it's Ctrl + the turn button, but I didn't get to play it much before it made my sorry old computer throw up.

WHy do they dive so deep in the movie?

Because the deeper you are the sooner you're under their sonar signal and they can't hear you, and the longer it takes depth charges to reach you, leaving you more time to evade.

What is the crush depth for our subs in SH5 and what are the advantages of diving super deep? I usually dive to 40m or so and thats plenty, but in the movie they go all the way down to 280 meters, is that depth even possible in the game?

Standard crash dive depth was 70 meters, as that's about how long it takes to pull out of a full-flood dive. That also gives you maneuvering room as described above. In the movie the only reason they went to 280 meters was that they were damaged and out of control. If the bottom hadn't have been there they almost certainly would have died. That incident was also in the book, and was based on an actual experience. Other u-boats reported being forced that deep and surviving, but of the many boats that didn't return, we don't know how many were lost for that very reason.

One final question, why can't I dive to a specific set depth? Its always either crash dive, dive, periscope or surfaced.

You should be able to click on the depth guage and select any number you want. You certainly can using TDW's NewUIs mod, which allows you to use the HUDs from other games.