Strangely, helos don't seem that interested in me; maybe I'm using an old version (you mentioned the new one lacks that infernal bloody Seawolf, which has just dogged my last attempt by constantly shooting off torps at me from 20+km off), but the behaviour I'd expected - an immediate launch of half-a-dozen MH-60s to track me down after I'd made a torpedo attack on a Tico - didn't materialise. What did happen, quite surprisingly, was that the CVBG steamed on its merry way whilst the Connecticut kept somehow lobbing torps at me. All I can say is either Seawolf has magic ears or DW's got slightly over-excited about it.
On that subject, the vagaries of the sonar again puzzle me. One try had me a scant 6,000m from Scranton, with both of us moving at 4-5kt, yet my sonar seemed unable to classify him; there was just the one frequency line in the Narrowband. We were both beneath the layer, moving slowly and carefully, but still... is the Akula sonar really that dire? Another attempt I was able to classify him, no problem, but then lost him among a maze of ghost echoes. In between washed-out periods from torpedo detonations, the same thing happened - he was this time doing 16 knots, I reckon about 12-14km from me, both of us again beneath the layer. Random chance again, or am I making a repeated error?
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