Help! Destroyers in GWX are no challenge.

Henri II · 04-29-07, 11:25 AM

Recently there was a thread about destroyers being too deadly in GWX, this may now sound strange, but I have exactly the opposite problem, they are not even a challenge.
In a recent patrol during the invasion of Norway I attacked a troop transport convoy, after the attack a Tribal class DD tried but couldn't sink or even really scare me, even though I couldn't go deeper than 15 (fifteen) m due to the shallow water there. Some time ago I had a simmilar experience in the Channell where half a task force was unable to do anything to even damage my boat in about 50 m of water. This seems rather strange, considering that usually the advice is given not to attack if the depth is less than 100 m.

Just now a simmilar thing happened, in November 1939 somewere north of Scottland with perfect weather I sighted a DD, changed course to run away from him, but was spotted by a plane after some time, dived to PD. The destroyer was still in hydrophone range and turned towards me alerted by the planes. I save just before that, so I decided to try and see how deadly he really was and continued to run at 1/3 at PD. He went right for me and dropped some DDs which caused heavy damage and heavy flooding. I sank to the bottom (80 m). I tried to rise but the electrics were damaged, blew balast twice and rose right to the surface about 100 m from the destroyer and crash dived back again. Flooding and damage were finally under controll and I went to 70 m at 1/3 ahead, still doing minor repairs. The DD made several runs at me which rocked the boat, but only one resulted in any damage. After about six or seven atacks I went to silent running, at which point he lost me completely and went bombing the see somewhere in the disatance.

Just about every encounter with escorts is like that for me, once I switch on silent running I can sit back and relax, now matter how deep or shallow I am, even without silent running I never am in any real danger. I know in 1939 the escort crews were rahter bad, but I had simmilar experiences up to 1941, and in my example above I did just about everything to make it easy for him.

Now I'm not sure how this just sonded, but it is not intended to be a critique, just an illustration of my problem. So, I have two questions:

1. What could be the reason for my experience being so totaly different from all those people who apparently are routinely sunk by escorts while trying everything to escape? Am I the only one?

2. Is there a more or less simple way to increase the lethality of escorts in GWX 1.03?

04-29-07, 11:25 AM	#1
Henri II Sparky Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Germany Posts: 156 Downloads: 47 Uploads: 0	Help! Destroyers in GWX are no challenge. Recently there was a thread about destroyers being too deadly in GWX, this may now sound strange, but I have exactly the opposite problem, they are not even a challenge. In a recent patrol during the invasion of Norway I attacked a troop transport convoy, after the attack a Tribal class DD tried but couldn't sink or even really scare me, even though I couldn't go deeper than 15 (fifteen) m due to the shallow water there. Some time ago I had a simmilar experience in the Channell where half a task force was unable to do anything to even damage my boat in about 50 m of water. This seems rather strange, considering that usually the advice is given not to attack if the depth is less than 100 m. Just now a simmilar thing happened, in November 1939 somewere north of Scottland with perfect weather I sighted a DD, changed course to run away from him, but was spotted by a plane after some time, dived to PD. The destroyer was still in hydrophone range and turned towards me alerted by the planes. I save just before that, so I decided to try and see how deadly he really was and continued to run at 1/3 at PD. He went right for me and dropped some DDs which caused heavy damage and heavy flooding. I sank to the bottom (80 m). I tried to rise but the electrics were damaged, blew balast twice and rose right to the surface about 100 m from the destroyer and crash dived back again. Flooding and damage were finally under controll and I went to 70 m at 1/3 ahead, still doing minor repairs. The DD made several runs at me which rocked the boat, but only one resulted in any damage. After about six or seven atacks I went to silent running, at which point he lost me completely and went bombing the see somewhere in the disatance. Just about every encounter with escorts is like that for me, once I switch on silent running I can sit back and relax, now matter how deep or shallow I am, even without silent running I never am in any real danger. I know in 1939 the escort crews were rahter bad, but I had simmilar experiences up to 1941, and in my example above I did just about everything to make it easy for him. Now I'm not sure how this just sonded, but it is not intended to be a critique, just an illustration of my problem. So, I have two questions: 1. What could be the reason for my experience being so totaly different from all those people who apparently are routinely sunk by escorts while trying everything to escape? Am I the only one? 2. Is there a more or less simple way to increase the lethality of escorts in GWX 1.03?