SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - View Single Post - Following a fast moving sub with towed array?

jojotcb10 · 09-29-14, 01:10 PM

Im a total newb to the game and have tons of questions to be honest but I am slowly learning a few things as I go. Ive tried reading as much as I can but its confusing to be honest on a lot of the questions I have. For starters, how do you follow a fast moving sub or contact with towed array sonar? If you are limited to a speed of about 6 knots how are you supposed to keep up or gain any ground? Also I finally just disabled autocrew from the sonar and the screen that makes the torpedos fire. I seem to miss a lot. I will do quick missions a lot of time and its obvious which one is a surface ship and which is a sub contact. By the way I use a US sub of either kind. My problem is that I look at the sonar and I can tell that a contact is a bad sub but I cant narrow down exactly what kind it is. It will list several different choices of subs as I go through the list of what the contact could be but I dont know which one it is. How do I find out more about the contact? Also, I look at the nav screen and sometimes Ill make an educated guess on what kind of sub it is and put it in with high confidence, etc, and after a while it has a firing solution and ill go to the firing screen and pick the contact, flood the tubs, etc, but miss. If the contact was going east, the torpedo seems to fire where it was and then starts a search pattern but never seems to find anything. With autocrew on everything but sonar and the firing station, what do I need to do to find out more about the contact, what do I do to make the shot better, etc? any help would be appreciated.

09-29-14, 01:10 PM	#1
jojotcb10 Swabbie Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 9 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Following a fast moving sub with towed array? Im a total newb to the game and have tons of questions to be honest but I am slowly learning a few things as I go. Ive tried reading as much as I can but its confusing to be honest on a lot of the questions I have. For starters, how do you follow a fast moving sub or contact with towed array sonar? If you are limited to a speed of about 6 knots how are you supposed to keep up or gain any ground? Also I finally just disabled autocrew from the sonar and the screen that makes the torpedos fire. I seem to miss a lot. I will do quick missions a lot of time and its obvious which one is a surface ship and which is a sub contact. By the way I use a US sub of either kind. My problem is that I look at the sonar and I can tell that a contact is a bad sub but I cant narrow down exactly what kind it is. It will list several different choices of subs as I go through the list of what the contact could be but I dont know which one it is. How do I find out more about the contact? Also, I look at the nav screen and sometimes Ill make an educated guess on what kind of sub it is and put it in with high confidence, etc, and after a while it has a firing solution and ill go to the firing screen and pick the contact, flood the tubs, etc, but miss. If the contact was going east, the torpedo seems to fire where it was and then starts a search pattern but never seems to find anything. With autocrew on everything but sonar and the firing station, what do I need to do to find out more about the contact, what do I do to make the shot better, etc? any help would be appreciated.