Escort radar

[ColonelSandersLite]

So, with all the things I've been up to, I thought that maybe it would be nice to take a break and actually play the game so I ran a couple of patrols in my current career.

On the most recent patrol, I was trying to attack a Horai Maru with a pair of escorts and one of the escorts had radar. This is the first time I've encountered that in this career and since the radar warning receiver uses the same line as the sonar contact line I thought it was just a sonar contact. I just couldn't figure out how the bastards where spotting me in dark from so far away.

The first time they spotted me, I was trying to close off the beam of the escorted ship to identify it and I noticed the escorts heading right at me so crash dove away. They dropped some charges where I was but didn't get very close.

Figuring it was just a fluke, I tried again. When I saw the escorts heading my way again, I did a crash dive and this time they got a good bead on me, but I managed to give them the slip after a half dozen or so depth charge attacks.

Wondering if it was a bug, I got some distance and did a save-exit-load and started to try again. That's when it finally hit me that the bearing line the game was showing me was for the radar warning receiver...

After realizing what was up, I just skirted the edge of their radar range, got ahead of them and torpedoed the transport. These same escorts then depth charged me a third time. This time it felt like they chased me all over the ocean and my boat even took some minor damage, which is really rare for me these days.