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Originally Posted by sasquatch
must just be bad luck then. I almost always take the long way home and go out of my away to avoid enemy infested waters. When out of eel's I'll intentionally avoid convoy and merchant routes. O well, I haven't been sunk yet... but it sure is scarry when your crew sights a DD 650m away in thick fog...
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A couple of weeks back when playing stock 1.4b I ran into a destroyer in heavy fog and rain, a couple of hundred miles west of Scapa. Time compression dropped out to 1x and the crew shouted out a ship. I jumped to the bridge and was absolutely horrified to see a British destroyer ahead to port, that was travelling the exact opposite direction to me! By the time I ordered a crash dive we were passing right by each other, only 100m apart.
I didn't disappear below until it was a little way behind me, but it simply didn't spot me! That was lucky
So all is not necessarily lost when a DD turns up unannounced. I've installed GWX now, and have a feeling I won't escape quite as easily if it happens again.