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Originally Posted by Morts
i just attacked a task force and sunk the carrier in it. but the DD's werent to happy about the loss, they where rather pissed all, 6 of them
i got depthcharged for 5 and a half hour
NOT A SINGLE HIT:hmm:
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That's not unreasonable. Once you reach a decent depth and run silent, it's almost impossible for them to accurately target a U-boat. Between the loss of contact once they are with 200 meters of you, the depth you're at, the time it takes for an ashcan to 'fall' to you, and the fact that most depth charges 'tumbled' as they sank, weaving off location, it was rare for a depth charge to damage a U-boat once at depth.
Mostly they keep dropping them to: 1) hope for a lucky hit, and 2) force the U-boat to remain submerged. That both permitted the convoy to continue safely running, and also the escorts knew that, at some point, if they were patient and waited long enough, the U-boat would be forced to surface before they asphxiated.