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Originally Posted by andylegate
@Pablo
Hmmmmm....thinking back to most of my patrols where I've sat and waited quietly for a convoy, what you are saying makes sense!
Not every time do they close to right where I am, but sometimes they'll pull up short and drop back to 11 or 12 knots when they get within a 2 to 3 km radius of me.
Then again sometimes it is right on top of me, they drop speed and start pinging away! Ack!
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Hi!
I'll add a note in the GWX Manual (in the section on "How to survive Antisubmarine Warfare) that mentions the random "activation" of convoy escorts.
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The objection that I had is the same DD's spoting me from over 6km away, at night, in choppy seas, with no moon and I'm sitting DIW (Dead In the Water). I can't see them at all, until their guns light up!  Then I can see them just fine as I start pounding on the "C" key to do a crash dive! Wondering if one of my watchstanders had lit up a cigarette (you CAN see that at night for miles and miles, I've seen it myself, freaky!).
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In what month and year did this happen, and do you know what kind of destroyers were involved?
Personally, I have been able to motor along on the surface about 4-5 km from a convoy's nearest escorts in rough seas at night without being bothered at all, even when the destroyers had radar, so I suspect you were found by the random sensor improvement factor added on to an elite crew (which was also assigned randomly to that ship). The elite crew would not have been enough to detect you, but the random detection improvement may have done it.
Pablo
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