I've been playing the original Silent Hunter recently, running patrol encounters at 60% realism (limited depth data, visability, and realistic charts off) and laughing at the schizophrenia of the escort AI. If you dive below a thermal layer (which don't seem to be implemented until after you get your bathythermograph) and jettison debris, the escorts, and every aircraft in the area, will gang up on the debris and depth charge it over and over again.
After a while I got bored and started shooting torpedoes at random. When the torpedoes exploded, the DDs would go chasing after the spot where it exploded and depth charge it. I fired three torpedoes, each in a different direction, and the escorts went nuts and chased after each explosion. Then I came up to periscope depth and released more debris. A passing Zero sighted it and crashed into it! :rotfl:
The escorts came back and I stayed at PD until they detected me. Then I dived back below the thermal layer, accelerated to ahead full, releasing debris everywhere. Again, the escorts ran around, DCing the debris. A second Zero roared in, and I heard a loud BAM! I came up to PD, looked around, and noticed that one of the destroyers was on fire! I dove back below the layer, and kept releasing debris until the escorts ran out of DCs and went away.
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