Hey AVG, I got away last night, again another single mission. The old stock (now improved) Gibraltar mission when you are supposed to try to sneak into the Med.
Well I was ok, nervous about air attack, limited to 128x for that, but in fact spotted a DD at dusk (4 stacker) who was heading straight for me (mission takes place in December 41) I had heard the Tommies have a new detection system for their ships on the surface.
Well I dove went to 120M and went silent...and in the meantime he called his friends...about 5 in total.
I got away. Simply following the advice given in the manual, never more than 2 knots unless depth chareges went off when I went to flank for 30 to 45 seconds....went to 180M too. Changing course. I realised that in fact the DDs didn't know exactly where I was as I changed course when I dove, befreo I was in he saw me visually! I think they were dropping too shallow as well. I saw a hole to the SW so crept away and as they lost contact 2 hours later (game time) I got away.
"Thinking" like a u-boat commander I decided the heck with it, not risking my boat and crew. Maybe I would try again the next day but was heading west when I saw a 2 ship convoy of a tramp and small merchant. Fired 4 trops and hit the small merchant which did not sink (love the new damage model and did the GWX team make the WO more human and less uber? Cool if they did)...as the tramp had a small deck gun I dove then got away to surface again (now midnight) when I ran into a large merchant and sank it with two torpedos again he took a while. I went to bed at 3:30 AM.
WOOHOOO!!!!
Only glitch, I get a message "windows is running low on virtual memory and is increasing the size of the page file" (I have 768 Megs of RAM) I know I know, but GWX actually runs ok, (didn't activate 16 KM obviously).
LOVE IT!!!!