[Relmu]

I'm at a bit of a loss. I had always assumed that submarine warfare was a long, drawn out and arduous affair where one takes the time to line up your opponents yet apparently I seem to be getting caught within the first ten/fifteen minutes not a problem.

At the moment I am piloting an Akula II in a dynamic mission. So far as I remember I am supposed to be intercepting a group of frigates that supposedly coming from the south (yet they're coming from the north apparently). My primary objective however involves sinking a Rebel SSN... quite how I identify these from loyalist SSN's I have no idea.

I have auto-crew turned on fully because frankly I don't have the time to switch through all the stations and complete all of the work myself before I get hit. It'd be fine if I knew that I was the target every time, so I could figure out the torpedo was heading for me but that's not always the case and...torpedoes apparently don't show up on the navigation screen (or my auto crew doesn't feel it's necessary). So I put a bit of faith in them.

Needless to say I ignore the ships to the north and proceed with hunting down my primary objective. I have no idea who that is and I'm also aware of other forces in the area. Which frequently show up as German, Chinese vessels. Assuming that they wouldn't put me in amongst a bunch of friendlies I turn towards the bearing that eventually identifies as an Oscar II.

I've worked out through trial and error that if I adjust my bearing every so often by a certain amount (i'm not sure how little is needed so I stick to a 10-20° turn once to the right and then twice to the left before centring again). Yet by the time I've completed my first turn and allowed the towed array to catch up (170m), I've usually been found and a torpedo is obviously sent charging towards me.

Depth seems to make no difference whatsoever to my being found or whether I can find others. It also makes no difference as to whether I put the radio mast up or use the streaming radio wire from 50m (at 3kts).

Whatever I do, I can't seem to find that sub before something else finds me. Obviously I'm doing something mightily wrong and could use some tips.

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I have no mods installed as I am running a 104 build through wine and I'm not certain as to whether I would be able to install them correctly (or heck even how to go about finding them).

I've read through the manual, to be fair most of it went straight over my head. I've looked through ''some'' of FPSChazly's tutorials to get the basic gist... sorry FPSChazly, but your Sinking the Nimitz game play was actually more of a help than your tutorials...

I also have a reference sheet, which...unfortunately doesn't have any akula information on it, but it provides cavitation depths for the Seawolf and the Los Angeles. Notably, the seawolf is silent up to 20kts, whatever that means.

My last attempt at using the sonar classification involves a Sonar Profiles pdf, which again by the time I've found what class I'm looking for... I've usually been sunk so that's of little help.

Basically. Halp.