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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
Even if you stay below their detection depth (you'd have to be below 150' or perhaps 200' to cover all possible conditions) you expose yourself for a prolonged amount of time during surfacing and submerging to that depth. During that time you have no way to know that the attacker is even there.
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You'd have a fairly good idea that no plane is there if you wait till after sunset to surface, as is my usual practice. Gamewise, it's kept me safe for
more than 16 patrols.
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If you live to surface at night, your batteries are in no condition to attack and evade.
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They are if I crawled along at 1 knot all day or even, assuming I'm in a likely contact area, just sat there (it worked for the
Tang), resting at my chosen depth, listening without even the sound of my props to interfere with the hydrophones.
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This is a war where you are expected to seek and engage the enemy.
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Seek and destroy the enemy. If he's aware enough for me to consider him 'engaged' with me, I've done something wrong.
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1/1000 is not acceptable risk when repeated without end.
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Then the sub might as well not leave port. On average, I'd say the odds of not coming back, as a sub sailor, were worse than 1/1000.
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Knowledge is not just power, in war it is life itself.
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Indeed. And if the enemy has no idea where I am...or even if I exist...his power over me is limited, while I have the power to engage any enemy I detect in the manner I see fit without his knowledge.
But as Doolittle said, it's all about immersion. I try to play as I've read, as I've seen, to get some small sense about how it might've been.