Another great book; "The U-Boat War In The Atlantic"

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Originally Posted by John Pancoast

Not necessarily, if you're meaning to make it harder for an escort to see you. It provides no help in that regard in the game, at least in my experience.

I am talking from memory and I may be confusing old threads: I remember reading here that escorts detection parameters, in game, of us (u-boat) have also to do with speed and heigh. Again, I am not sure of this.


In my game, GWX3+several mods, until mid 41 or sometimes later, with a calm sea state, decks awash and going like 3 to 5 knots, I could get very close to the convoy and sometimes the lateral escorts do pass like 800m near me with out changing course to attack me.

I also experience the opposite, thinking that it is going to be a nice attack and the sky is sudden full of star shells and the escorts are coming to attack.