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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
That works on the easy levels. Players pretending they are real sub skippers find it is not a good tactic at 100%.
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You can say that again. A down the throat shot on alert DD or other anti-sub vessel results in a wasted torpedo as they do-si-do around your futile shot and drop their love packages all over your sorry self. Say hi to St Peter for me.
I'll say OK to staying at periscope depth, but John Wayne stuff is just foolhardy. You choose your blows carefully, with the attitude 75% defensive, 25% offensive. Quick peeks with the scope, careful attention to boat positioning and readiness to drop it all and head for the deep as a result of honest appraisal of circumstances. Pride is the prime characteristic of dead submariners.
If the opportunity rises to hit one escort, sometimes momentary confusion and dread among the other escorts lets you hit the merchies, which are the real targets here.
Rambo and wiping out all the escorts tactics happen in movies and arcade games, not submarine simulations.