This is getting ridiclous!

[Doolittle81]

I see now where you are coming from.....

I was speaking in terms of what would be Wise in Real Life in WWII. You are speaking of the Game AI behavior and or mission building/scenarios. Your discovered tricks very probably work quite well in this Game, as you have pointed out has been the case in your Sixteen patrols. I've learned a trick or two myself, especially when dealing with the extremely poor/laughable Aircraft AI in this submarine Game. Read the post somewhere on this Forum from the guy who shot down something like 15 out of a series of waves of 16 Betty bombers attacking his sub....Ridiculous.

My basic point is that had one followed such a tactic (as recommended by you) as a real life Sub Captain in WWII, I doubt they'd have survived more than one or two patrols, at most. Possibly some real-life captains who failed to return in fact tried such a risky tactic....we'll never know.

I think it is a matter of the degree of immersion one seeks in a "Simulation", Flight or Sub or (I guess) Tank Sims(?)...

You say

...Hiding is providing aid and comfort to the enemy and every bit as reprehensible as hiding on the battlefield, letting your buddies get killed while you might poke your nose out if the shooting stops. Stealth is not the same as hiding. Stealth is a tool of attack. Hiding is a tool of cowardice...

Somehow I think you've never been in combat....but, then again, not many folks on this Forum have been.

Anyway, it's been an interesting hypothetical discussion of tactics.