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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
A good thing to remember while evading is to make sure you show a small profile to the destroyer. What that means is try to stay facing directly towards or away from the searching destroyer, so that you present a smaller surface for his ASDIC pings to bounce off of.
A lot of people will tell you to immediately dive as deep as you can after taking a shot at a convoy. This, in my opinion, is wrong. Dive dynamically so that you don't lose time. Take her down to 50 meters. If you feel like they still have a lock on your position, go deeper in 25 to 50 meter increments until you lose them. Remember you're for all intents and purposes blind and lame while submerged. The longer you stay down, the chances of getting a second shot on the convoy decrease.
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I dive at high speed and reduce to 2 kts at about 40m which allows a very slow decent. So yeah, Mookie is right, sometimes you do not need to go to 150m. Sometimes just 50 will do and you can elude the DD. This allows you to pop back up for more torpedo action. As far as staying down and losing the second chance on the convoy....get their direction and allow yourself to fall behind. Prepare for your end round attack! You call the shots of when and where you want to attack! You can go after the same convoy all the way across the Atlantic. That hydrophone can
hear the vessels from far away and keeping tabs on them and then mad surface runs for the end round attack makes for a wonderful day at sea
