[Sgian Dubh]

Hi all,

So now that I have some time in on GWX I seem to be struggling to deal with one issue.

Let me illustrate by example:

I start the Drumbeat single mission.


You start submerged.
Regardless of what heading or speed I set, regardless of bottoming the boat or running silent - shortly after dusk an Armed trawler shows up and make a bee-line straight for me and begins pinging me when it comes into range.

After about 8 iterations of this I finally surfaced on the last attempt and then blew it out of the water with my deck gun.

This is just one illustration.

In other scenarios and in the campaign it seems like I am detected (at night - I never surface during the day) from extremely long ranges, even in early war.

I do not mean to say that GWX is "too hard" or some thing is wrong with GWX.

But I need to understand better that I do now what is going on and why.

If it is a calm sea, middle of the night and no moon, what is a safe distance (from DDs) that one can operate on the surface? I don't mean go screaming along - I mean creeping and recharing my batteries.

I don't mind so much the challenge, especially in later years. But in 1939 it seems much harder that I would have expected.

So just some hints on how to cope with this in GWX would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks