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Old 09-20-08, 12:53 PM   #1
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Default 1st September 1942, depth 220m...

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WILL YOU JUST FECK ORF AND LEAVE ME ALONE!!!?

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Old 09-20-08, 12:57 PM   #2
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....RELAX!.... it will run outta wabos eventually and then ....its only a pingpingpingpingpingpingpingpingpingpin..... :rotfl: no more BOOMBOOMBOOM
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Old 09-20-08, 01:00 PM   #3
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And where are you, with this quite bothersome fellow now?
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Old 09-20-08, 01:06 PM   #4
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I'm south-west of Ireland. I've spent 3.5 hours of game time being depth charged. There were two of them at first, now there's one left and he seems to have an unlimited supply of DC's.

If I make it through this patrol I'm going to "buy" a type 7! This type 9 is becoming a liability...
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Old 09-20-08, 01:12 PM   #5
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bah 3.5 hrs is nothing i spent usually 12hrs+ at this depth running 2/3rd to make them throwing wabos til they give up.
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Old 09-20-08, 01:14 PM   #6
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Well yeah, running at 1/3 (I assume you meant 1/3) will do that

Posting here seems to have brought me luck - I finally give him the slip. He's still DCing but a good distance behind me now. The pings are getting very quiet...

BTW I have TC set to 1 for "being hunted" in SH3C, so I prefer to slip away when I can!
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Old 09-20-08, 01:17 PM   #7
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Excellent but still be carefully the damned DDs will cut engine and quit waboing at some point and listening for ure presence and if u still too close it will detect u again.

Im focussing now on a raid in a blizzrad check back later
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Old 09-20-08, 02:01 PM   #8
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Well you were spot on - the DD found me again.

Now it's finally run out of DC's and it's making "dry runs" which I've read about on these forums but, well, if it ever happened to me before then I've forgotten about it. Obviously the DD doesn't know it has no DC's left, so, what now? It just makes dry runs until I run out of air? It certainly isn't showing any signs of giving up and going home.
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Old 09-20-08, 02:12 PM   #9
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It will give up. In my experience once they've run out of DC's they continue to make a nuisance of themselves for a couple of hours at the most and then clear off. Wiat for it to be at least 16,000m away before surfacing. Just keep manouvering to keep your 'tail' pointed at it and cut speed to 1 knot. Go as deep as you dare!
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Old 09-20-08, 02:13 PM   #10
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Well, why worry about a DD without depth charges, if you have torpedoes...
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Old 09-20-08, 02:14 PM   #11
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My experience is that it will run over and over u until night changes to day or reversed. Til that point i run in a wide circle with 1kts to maintenance depth til this happens.

Aaargh....regarding my convoy i dont mind a hurricane but thick fog makes it nasty. I cant see a thing until i litterly run into the target. Need to dig out my hydroattack skills again. At least i see two burning ships from an AI attack as lighttowers from a larger distance.
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Old 09-20-08, 02:15 PM   #12
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Well, why worry about a DD without depth charges, if you have torpedoes...
That means periscope depth where it is too easy for a boat as clumsy as the IX to get rammed. Stay deep and evade, DD's aren't worth a torpedo...
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Old 09-20-08, 02:17 PM   #13
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DD trhowing me 1607 dc is worth a torpedos, payback!
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Old 09-20-08, 02:24 PM   #14
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Thanks for the info (even as contradictory as some of it was!)

Yeah I thought about torpedo-ing it, but it seems too much like cheating - I'd be taking advantage of the stupid AI and sinking a ship which I wouldn't be able to sink (or at least not so easily) were it not for the bug which causes it to keep "attacking" after it's run out of ammo.

Stoopid bloody AI.

Ommm.
Ommm.
I will not rant about the AI standards of the game industry.
Ommm.
Ommm.
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Old 09-20-08, 02:31 PM   #15
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Bah, i want a game to force me to do like in real life, not myself. Ubi can with 2 lines of code get that dc empty dd go away:
IF DD.DC = 0 Then
Return_To_route()
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