Evading destroyers Gwx

[pippaman]

Hello i came back to SH3 after something like 10 years, and started playing with GWX.
I'm not a veteran by any means but i had my fair share of hours commanding a uboat.

I'm in february 1941 with a VIIIC and for the life of me i can't escape destroyers.
I had 2 destroyers chasing me after a failed aircraft attack and i coulnd't shake them off.
I Had 80 meters of depth under the keel.

I tried silent running slowly away: nothing they continuously picked me up with sonar.
Evading at flank speed during depth charging runs, i kept the stopwatch at 30second intervals of flank speed after their run to change course : nothing they picked me up with sonar
Kept evading longer at flank speed: nothing
Flank speed triyng to sneak behind the destroyers (crossing the T on their stern) maybe worked 1 time out of 20.
Even if i manage to evade from them and put 1 or 2 km they've picked me up after somehow (at silent speed / 2kt)
Even if i kept my stern or bow at them to minimize my silhouette didn't work.
Tried resting on the bottom of the sea to no avail.

On top of that silent running wouldn't have worked because i coulnd't keep the depth unless running at 4kt after some minor damage.

Am i missing something?

From what i know destroyers also had limited ammunitions, but from what i read GWX has like 3 times the normal amount so you can't even wait for the destroyers to run out (as from what i know was a ''tactic'')

I actually waited them to run out: one did, the other kept depth charging me with the side launchers only. After 8 hours of ingame time i simply gave up.



Also GWX manual says that around 60mt there's the critical depth for sonar due to the thermal layer and the diverging of the sound path: doesn't look like it.

Is there simply no way to evade and thats it?


Thank you and have a nice day