Will try to answer what I remember .. haven't play DW in years.
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Hi all,
1. Can the in-game AI ASW ships ping with active gear and listen out for me with their passive equipment at the same time? (It seems that most will ping every 45 seconds, are they listening with their hydrophones in between pinging?)
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Yes. They are generally isolated sensors on the AI ships which are usually both active. Passive is never turned off, active can be turned off if mission designer wishes.
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2. If suitably equipped, do they actually use their towed arrays and VDS?
3. If yes, are they smart enough to lower their VDS (or dangle a towed array) below a layer?
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Yes. Though they usually don't have real towed array. They just have sensor at their coordinates which has similar parameters. IIRC Lwami adds 3 such sensors at different depths, so it simulates variable depth in a way. Check Lwami read-me.
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4. Can they hear me with passive sonar, even if they are travelling fast (20Kts+)?
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Nope. Even AI sensors are affected by speed. Active too. There is at least one stock mission where there is some important ship escorted by ASW ships who ping away wildly, and whole group is moving at 20kts, and they can't hear you at all.
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5. Will they actually spot my masts with radar/visual sensors? (I've been playing on the assumption that they can).
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Whatever manual says, your masts are not detectable in any way.
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6. It's surprising what you can see sometimes with the high freq sonar, can the AI detect it?
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It can't.
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7. How close can I safely approach an enemy asw ship, assuming I'm travelling slow and deep in a 688i?
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That really depends on conditions. Using layer you can get under 5 miles. Create your own test scenarios .. good way to get some real data.
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8. Do the AI units have individual skill levels like in SHIII, or do they all operate to the same standard of competency?
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Same 'skill'. Same scripts, same everything.
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9. Can the AI hear me flooding launch tubes, opening tube hatches, and deploying/retrieving towed arrays?
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Nope.
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Cheers!
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Btw. here is one old thread of mine which contains some useful information about mechanics of DW sound propagation model:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=117814