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5. Is it a bug or a featcher [how should I spell that damn word?!] that when under critical depth and the speed is 2 knts or less, the boat falls down slowly (didn;t notice this when over the critical depth).
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Feature. Historically, submarines had difficulty maintaining neutral buoyancy unless they were under speed. If you are standing still it is realistic to begin sinking very very slowly.
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A submerged submarine is in an unstable equilibrium, having a tendency to either fall down to the ocean floor or float up to the surface. Keeping a constant depth requires continual operation of either the depth control tanks or control surfaces.
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If you are barely moving, then control surfaces don't do much!  |
Yes, I understand and that sounds reasonable. BUT my boat doesn't fall down slowly at 2 knts speed IF NOT under critical depth, and that's the clue. I've conducted some carefull testing and it only behaves like that when under 170 metres (type IXB).
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Edit: Also, although I have not played GWX yet, I gather that circle markers are indicative of submarine contacts. You probably encountered a wolfpack!
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If that is true, I'll never forgive myself leaving the area... I haven't spotted any of them.
But that would be a good explanation of the escorts behaviour:
- They let me go quite easily, and that was a bit surprising, because two weeks before, when attacking some other convoy they wouldn't stop chasing me for quite a few hours,
- They were so strangely behaving that finally I managed to get close enough to one of them not being spotted and sink it with a few accurate deck gun shots (and this was a second sunk corvette from this convoy, as earlier I accidentaly hit one with my torpedo).
But no u-boots on sight, sir...