Excellent points.
One thing, my changes to the DCs also includes accurate loads of DCs on the escorts. So some might carry 18 DCs instead of what they now carry (80).
Also, I should be clear. I was trying to get shacked. My test case was a single DC exploding so that the explosion graphic touched my sub. I made an Elite Minekaze with 1 roll rack and used TM sensors, and loaded up the Minekaze like bungo pete with sensors on top of that. If a DC exploded nearby, but didn't touch I quit the mission and started over.
Even then, had I been trying to evade, and/or deeper than 100 feet, he'd not have hit me often in all those tests.
Really, the point of the poll is to find out how many folks think that it should be possible for a single DC to take out a sub. I agree that if they are shacking you all the time, then they need to be toned down to have historical outcomes. I would assume, however, that the sub goes deep and tries HARD not to get hit as a baseline as well (I'm sure skippers treated a DCing as the life or death situation it was).
I might also be inclined to make single DC kills unlikely for the type 95s since in RL they only had 2 or 3 depth settings, and the deepest was 60m for most of their lifetime in service.
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