Depth charge safe depth?

[Pistoliero]

So far (mid-1941) it looks like my u-boat is perfectly safe from both depth charges and water pressure at 200 meter depth. I can run at flank speed, reload torpedoes, repair boat and do whaterver I want at this depth, when escorts are near.

So questions are:
1. Will it continue until the end of the game, or later depth charges would be able to hit me at such depth?
2. How realistic this situation is (I believe I have read that depth charges don't going gelow 150m are realistic, but what about u-boat staying at 200m depth as long as it has oxygen)?

[BigWalleye]

Originally Posted by Pistoliero

So far (mid-1941) it looks like my u-boat is perfectly safe from both depth charges and water pressure at 200 meter depth. I can run at flank speed, reload torpedoes, repair boat and do whaterver I want at this depth, when escorts are near.

So questions are:
1. Will it continue until the end of the game, or later depth charges would be able to hit me at such depth?
2. How realistic this situation is (I believe I have read that depth charges don't going gelow 150m are realistic, but what about u-boat staying at 200m depth as long as it has oxygen)?

Are you playing stock, GWX, or NYGM? (Listed in order of increasing lethality to the player.)

[Pistoliero]

Sorry, forgot to mention. GWX 3.0 (+SH commander), no additional modes.

[UKönig]

In real life, in the early war, (1939-1941) allied depth charges had a maximum depth of 152m. If you sit at 157-160m, they cannot hit you.
By 1942, they fixed that problem, if they find you, they will kill you.

[maillemaker]

Also, once they have hedgehogs, those things go to any depth you can go to.

Steve

[desirableroasted]

I can't find it for the life of me, but there is a depth at which stock SH3 depth charges "unspawn". But it is irrelevant, because it is beyond the crush depth of any of our subs.

No idea if that is hard coded and, if not, whether it was modded by GWX or NYGM to better simulate the development of technology. (and I actually don't want to know... the game is more fun for me if I don't know every twist the modders added, peace be upon them!)

My own, purely subjective, "feeling" is that inexperienced AI crews rarely toss depth charges to explode deeper than about 125 m. As the war goes on and the AI crews get better, they can and do happily send them down to crush depth.