need help evading destroyers

[Seth8530]

i have just got out of scapa and am being attacked relentlessly, depth is around 70m clear weather. more destroyers on the way, all torpedoes used except external reserves, june 1940 HELP Batteries jsut above a quarter

[Special-K]

I noticed destroyers tend to circle round your sub when you're submerged. So I headed SLOWLY to the nearest strip of land. Took a bit of damage meself but the destroyer ended up grounded! :-) Don't know if this will always work but it worked that time.

[Seth8530]

Thank you and greetings

[bigboywooly]

Hi and welcome Special K

@Seth
Well serves you right for going into Scapa
:rotfl:
What do you expect
Of course they will be pissed

Not that thats gonna help ya know
If your batteries are that low I guess you are boned
Try heading out for deeper water
Keep your ruder a few degrees over so you arent going straight
Keep speed to 2 kts or under
And as the depth increases so should you

Good luck

[Ducimus]

Yeah, pretty much what BBW said. You dont have the batteries for alot of evasive manuvering. Doing so would be ringing the dinner bell anyway since its clear weather (not good). I'd say your only hope is to keep the rudder 5 to 7 degree's to port or starboard, be as quiet as you can, and try and make for deeper water. There are sometimes pockets of deeper water. Check your map, and hope there's one nearby.

Otherwise... well, your pretty much up the proverbial estuary without a means of locomotion.

[Seth8530]

Thanks for all the good news 0_0 is this the end of me

[Puster Bill]

Originally Posted by Seth8530

Thanks for all the good news 0_0 is this the end of me

Awww, don't think like that. Think like a pirate. I want the kind of captain who has a tattoo on his [CENSORED]. Do I have the right man?

[Brag]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Yeah, pretty much what BBW said. You dont have the batteries for alot of evasive manuvering. Doing so would be ringing the dinner bell anyway since its clear weather (not good). I'd say your only hope is to keep the rudder 5 to 7 degree's to port or starboard, be as quiet as you can, and try and make for deeper water. There are sometimes pockets of deeper water. Check your map, and hope there's one nearby.

Otherwise... well, your pretty much up the proverbial estuary without a means of locomotion.

Yup--that rudder slightly off center, being really quiet, and a bit of luck may save yer butt. The Tommies don't like U-Boats in Scapa. Staying close to land saved me in SHII --sort of doubt that trick will work in GWX.

[AVGWarhawk]

I really can not help you here. I stay were it is deep. I just got slam dunked in 90 meters of water. (patrol #2 Brag , no joke). Deep water operations for me only after todays mis-adventure.

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I really can not help you here. I stay were it is deep. I just got slam dunked in 90 meters of water.

Ah AVG
There are some folks from the Uboat construction yards to see you when you dare to show your face in the harbour masters office again

Seems they arent too happy at slaving away turning out uboats for you to keep sinking them on patrol 2

[John|Blackthorne]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

There are sometimes pockets of deeper water. Check your map, and hope there's one nearby.

How do you recognize these water pockets? How do they appear on the map?

[Brag]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I really can not help you here. I stay were it is deep. I just got slam dunked in 90 meters of water. (patrol #2 Brag , no joke). Deep water operations for me only after todays mis-adventure.

Not again, Hawk Will hafta send you back to Canoe Schule

[Brag]

The darker the color the deeper the water.

I stear towards the DDs so that I reduce my SONAR signature. You have to have nerves of steal and be ready to increase speed as soon as a DC is in the water.

It's a cat and mouse game. Guess which one your sub is! Keep manuevering, and pay special attention as to where the DDs are and stear towards them as much as possible. DO NOT get impatient, impatience will get you dead.

[Lovro]

To quote some guys we all know- the rule of the tumb is
RUN SILENT RUN DEEP

...and crawl away. If DCed go flank, bend that rudder and pray (Its next to imposible to get killed using this if you are deep) BUT if you are raiding a port you are more of less screwed in the shallow waters if the enemy AI is halfway decent (my tactic in that situation is all engines stop, wait for the DD to start turning and crawl when hes not looking)