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Originally Posted by Hitman
Yeah, I'm normally a Kilo player and its current level of noise in LWAMI/Stock forces you to go too slow or even stop completely in ambush style. But given the poor range of Kilo weapons and detection ranges, this renders you harmless in too many ocasions.
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This is not unrealistic. Contrary to a lot of people's beliefs, a kilo is NOT a super-submarine. Unless it's armed with cruise missiles, most diesel electric submarines are constrained simply by their kinematic ability to get in range of it's target. They can maneuver some, but they really aren't capable of chasing down a target like a nuke might. They have to wait for a target to come to them, and then make the correct decisions that will place them in a position to make an attack. If the target zigs at the wrong time, the attack is off and all the kilo can do is wait for another target to come along. This is why their second most important attribute is not just their silence, but that they're relatively inexpensive. In order to be effective you need a lot of them because it's unlikely the enemy would even encounter just a small number.