I can give you one tactic for surfaced attack.....go in hull down. They seem to miss you all the time. I know you know the decks-awash deal with the uboats and it is pretty much the same here. I attempted a few surface attack and was detected just about 100% of the time. I decided on hull down and it is like they look right over you at the horizon all the time. But, those times I was detected while completely surfaced I was coming in at 21 kts...
....ok, I was hot rodding the boat. So I can see why I was detected. Coming in slow and low seems to be the best.
The hardest part here is determining what you are up against. DD can be dumb as a box of rocks or an elite killing machine who will not stop until you are dead
(Terminator Style). So, you never know what you will get when approaching escorted merchants. One aspect of the game I like. I do not know if you are running RFB that has Peto longer evasion mod but the sub hunters are lethal as they get. The minelayers are no fun either. First time I had a sub hunter I was slammed to the bottom and never returned. I tried the same senerio again and spent a better part of an hour twisting and turning to loose the darn thing.
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...and I don't think it necessarily has to do with visual detection ranges only. The "confusion element" doesn't seem to be accounted for. Once detected, the enemy's C3I seems to be perfect.
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Not true. If you are around the convoy and detected, they scatter like cockroaches when the light is turned on. They will continue to do this if they know you are around. They will fire off the weapons wildly. This will continue until you are not detected anymore. They then resume their course. Get inside and the DD get very confused and it becomes like a shooting gallery.