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TorpexXIII · 01-02-12, 10:23 AM

Cheers guys, thanks for help/advice. Perhaps Im unluckily getting good escorts each time. Yes they were Mk14's so thats why as soon as I fired I ran. It just seems odd that they never seem to go for the firing position just straight for me every time!!! LOL

Ill keep testing but Ive also dropped to 1kt speed, been below a layer and at 400ft and they just have me in contact constantly. Im all for tough escorts but it seems these guys have 2012 sonar equipment!

PPPPS...

I think that perhaps they should have stock detection levels for the early years as its a historical fact that the IJN ASW effort had poor tactics and equipment to begin with. The IJN put very little resource into ASW tactics and equipment at the start of the war as they almost completely discounted the Allied submarine threat. So it follows that the escorts performance should be a little poorer if not crap in the early years of the campaign.

01-02-12, 10:23 AM	#5
TorpexXIII Electrician's Mate Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 131 Downloads: 197 Uploads: 0	Ta Cheers guys, thanks for help/advice. Perhaps Im unluckily getting good escorts each time. Yes they were Mk14's so thats why as soon as I fired I ran. It just seems odd that they never seem to go for the firing position just straight for me every time!!! LOL Ill keep testing but Ive also dropped to 1kt speed, been below a layer and at 400ft and they just have me in contact constantly. Im all for tough escorts but it seems these guys have 2012 sonar equipment! PPPPS... I think that perhaps they should have stock detection levels for the early years as its a historical fact that the IJN ASW effort had poor tactics and equipment to begin with. The IJN put very little resource into ASW tactics and equipment at the start of the war as they almost completely discounted the Allied submarine threat. So it follows that the escorts performance should be a little poorer if not crap in the early years of the campaign.