Hydrophone Range?

Armistead · 09-18-09, 06:01 PM

Your sonar man will not detect unknown contacts, only warships and merchantmen. If you notice your computer will lag out, start slowing down before a contact. Actually contact has been made. When you get a slow down, take over Sonar and you'll hear the targets easily twice as far as your soundman.

Many times people will get the slowdown but never find a contact. You may not be heading in the right direction and go out of range before you get a contact report and your PC speeds back up, not checking you may have just missed a large TF. So check yourself and you can get a bearing.

The same thing with visual contacts. You can see ships twice as far. So when my PC slows down, I check sonar and get a bearing. I will then go look and usually see the ships and can often start plotting an attack long before my crew gives a contact report.

09-18-09, 06:01 PM	#3
Armistead Rear Admiral Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on the Dan Posts: 10,880 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	Your sonar man will not detect unknown contacts, only warships and merchantmen. If you notice your computer will lag out, start slowing down before a contact. Actually contact has been made. When you get a slow down, take over Sonar and you'll hear the targets easily twice as far as your soundman. Many times people will get the slowdown but never find a contact. You may not be heading in the right direction and go out of range before you get a contact report and your PC speeds back up, not checking you may have just missed a large TF. So check yourself and you can get a bearing. The same thing with visual contacts. You can see ships twice as far. So when my PC slows down, I check sonar and get a bearing. I will then go look and usually see the ships and can often start plotting an attack long before my crew gives a contact report.