Best use of Decoys?

Q3ark · 04-27-08, 07:24 AM

How do you use them? Is it best to fire one out when being pinged or after a deapth charge run.

I have never used them but evading a couple of DD's in TMO is a nightmare and i need all the help i can get.

Quillan · 04-27-08, 08:56 AM

I don't know how effective this is, but generally I use them when avoiding a depth charge attack. I'll hit flank speed for a short period of time to get out from under the charges, then reduce back to silent running and change course, firing a decoy as I turn. I know they'll have heard me at flank and have a pretty good idea where I was, so I hope the decoy makes them think I'm still there.

banjo · 04-27-08, 09:40 AM

If there are destroyers in the vicinity, as soon as I am done firing torpedos I launch a decoy or two and then dive below the layer and move away at 2/3. The decoys seem to work as an external look shows them circling around where I launched it (generally).

Q3ark · 04-27-08, 11:39 AM

Those both sound like good ideas. Will try them out when I get a chance all I can find at the moment is sampans and fishing boats. Will have to find some DD's to torment

Terror_666 · 04-27-08, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by banjo

If there are destroyers in the vicinity, as soon as I am done firing torpedos I launch a decoy or two and then dive below the layer and move away at 2/3. The decoys seem to work as an external look shows them circling around where I launched it (generally).

That is generally the methode I use. Launch a Decoy and go deep below the thermal layer where surface sonar is next to useless.

04-27-08, 07:24 AM	#1
Q3ark Watch Officer Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: York, England Posts: 346 Downloads: 47 Uploads: 0	Best use of Decoys? How do you use them? Is it best to fire one out when being pinged or after a deapth charge run. I have never used them but evading a couple of DD's in TMO is a nightmare and i need all the help i can get. __________________ Johnny was a chemist's son, But Johnny is no more. What Johnny thought was H20 was H2SO4.

04-27-08, 08:56 AM	#2
Quillan Samurai Navy Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 579 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	I don't know how effective this is, but generally I use them when avoiding a depth charge attack. I'll hit flank speed for a short period of time to get out from under the charges, then reduce back to silent running and change course, firing a decoy as I turn. I know they'll have heard me at flank and have a pretty good idea where I was, so I hope the decoy makes them think I'm still there. __________________ We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

04-27-08, 11:39 AM	#4
Q3ark Watch Officer Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: York, England Posts: 346 Downloads: 47 Uploads: 0	Those both sound like good ideas. Will try them out when I get a chance all I can find at the moment is sampans and fishing boats. Will have to find some DD's to torment __________________ Johnny was a chemist's son, But Johnny is no more. What Johnny thought was H20 was H2SO4.

04-27-08, 09:40 AM	#3
banjo Grey Wolf Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 762 Downloads: 55 Uploads: 0	If there are destroyers in the vicinity, as soon as I am done firing torpedos I launch a decoy or two and then dive below the layer and move away at 2/3. The decoys seem to work as an external look shows them circling around where I launched it (generally).