One thing I have learned in the short time I have been playing CW, is I can generally ID targets from anywhere up to 20k yds away, generally doing this as I sinking out to my TMA depth (deepest I can go at the time). This gives me time and breathing space so I don't have to rush anything. I then run TMA on the most important surface contacts to get a reasonable/good solution. I then fire for the escorts in the order of closest to farthest.
If an escort has detected my weapons and turns towards me, he is still out at 12-15k yds so again, my weapon is only 5-6k yds from him, I have time to breathe and think through each of my actions. If I feel he is getting too close, I will turn "his" weapon to active homing, and they generally turn and begin running. You may still get an "over the shoulder" SSN-14 fired at you.
Being at 1200' most times, I can have the call of "Torpedo in the water" and still have the time to go to flank speed and try to evade the weapon, even having the time to fire a MOSS before I need to think about panicking...
Once all the escorts are dealt with, I will generally come to 300' and mop up the remainder with TASM.
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