I've been DC'd about 3 times like this in a wekk - it's not a common feature, therefore, in my experience but it IS darned annoying when it happens. Due to a previous bad experience when a Japanese trawlerman made rude gestures at my scope I decided to sit at 150-160ft and listen to sonar during daylight hours in future. So that's what I was doing earlier today - err - yesterday rather - and I started getting sonar bearings from a small convoy. Plotting it all out, whilst sitting at dead stop, 150ft, I realised they were heading right over me - great I thought - no need to start up.
From the blue sonar bearings I could see there were a couple of merch's and three escorts - only one escort showing to the rear, seemed close in, I figured I'd rise gently from the deep and bang a salvo off from behind. Before I could announce my brilliant plan to the XO, ie before I'd done ANYTHING at all, a DD ran overhead, dropped bang on top of me, and killeded me stone dead. No active sonar pinging, the guy just motored 10nm or so south, set his DC's to 150ft, and deaded me.
I loaded a previous save, zoomed back to the area, went to 250ft and sat there with everything off and ran TC until the convoy came over again. This time they dropped the DC's set to 250ft.
Now the only thing I can think of to explain this is that either that big orange floating symbol really is an aid to otherwise incompetent AI escorts, or now and again the AI is allowed to peek. I cannot understand how it could be otherwise - I gave no detection opportunity, no aircraft spotted me at any time - and even if I had a big orange float tied unwittingly to my boat's sail that wouldn't explain how they could reset the depth accurately without pinging me first.
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