Oh, I have to agree... the ASW is getting kinda tiring, with 1.3 installed, and TM1. Not boring, but tiring.
I was patrolling Sagami Bay, just outside Tokyo Bay. With the deep water, and early '42 convoys leaving Tokyo according to the SH4 map, I figured it'd be worth a try. I'd spend most nights on the surface, and most days under water at about 100 feet. If I picked up an warships, I went to 250 feet, 1 knot or less, and silent running.
This pair of warships (destroyer and a subchaser, I believe) passed me twice. On their third time around, I was unlucky enough to pass right underneath them. The destroyer never heard me... but the trailing subchaser did. Instantly, the active sonar started up, and it was a lost fight from there.
I'd twist and turn, trying to keep the pinging warship off my beam. Raising my speed helped get my bow around, but the other warship must've been listening off to the side, since I never managed to lose them. Just going deep (300'), with silent running, and less than a knot speed, failed to help. They continued to ping, and continued to drop depth charges. I'd continue to twist, alternate depth (250' to 300'), and finally just staying slow & quiet (again, 1 knot or less).
Only one near miss actually damaged me... enough to take out both 'scopes, deck & AA gun. Needless to say, the patrol was over at that point, and the warships continued making runs at me, regardless of anything I tried.
Wife finally came in, requesting a tuck-in, and I said the heck with it... quit the patrol without saving, posted this, and went to bed.
