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Originally Posted by ejbeadles
Thanks for the awesome advice folks. I will put it to use right away. One thing I was doing was submerging during the day and sufacing at night to avoid aircraft. I will try it your way and see what happens!
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Originally Posted by ejbeadles
Thanks!!
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It's not that it's a bad tactic per say, historically it was often done, moreso early war, but patrolling on the surface as much as possible is the better option. A sub is basically a surface craft afterall, that can submerge when attacked. You'll also get better fuel vs milage range patrolling of the surface.
The game basically has a contact zone around your sub that reaches to the limits of your best equipment, say 30nms. This zone exist from the start of the war, if any group comes within it your PC will lag out a lil. Even though this zone reaches to the limits of your best equipment, your subs crew/equipment AI will work within it's limits or equiment values/skill. Say early war your sonar AI may only pick up ships at 6000 yards, but since a group is in the contact zone, you yourself can hear it on sonar to the best range. So if patrolling, keep the stop watch up, if you see it lag out, check sonar yourself, you can easily locate a group 20-30nms away depending on mods, you're not limited by the AI.
Even with RSRD in some areas the planes are too much and I'll stay dived most the day. The other issue is time limits and contact ranges, if a plane spots you it can vector other units to hunt you, some other mods really change this up, you get spotted, planes and ships come a looking. Also depends on your playing style and how hard of an AI you go against, TMO has a fairly difficult AI, but even it becomes easy once you learn how to respond to it, so many really tweak the AI to be much harder.