aw heck now that IS embarassing!!!!

[ddiplock]

Originally Posted by Quillan

First, depending on your depth, you may have been visually spotted. The Pacific is rather clear, and (especially if you're playing TMO with Ducimus' evil changed) you might be seen while submerged. Also, if the weather was bad you may have partially broached, with your scopes or even the top of the conning tower coming out of the water.

Second, it seems to me that anytime you get within roughly 500 yards of an escort they just "know" there's an enemy sub around and start pinging.

Well that's a total crapper. In the time i've had SH4, that was my FIRST encounter with a Japanese convoy, yeah it only had some 4 merchants in it, but it had destroyer escorts and such. I was really looking forward to scoring some tonnage and then diving deep, but, even diving deep below the thermal didn't help. I took that little S-class boat down to some 320ft before the hull started complaining really bad lol.

Kind of a shame, it goes to show that when it came to diving depths, the German Uboat was by far superior to their American counterparts. I mean, an American sub that can dive down to 300ft is only 90mtrs by german standards. German subs frequently went to depths of 200+ meters which is considerably deeper. But i remember someone telling me that German subs could dive deeper than their US counterparts because they were smaller and displaced less water or something. lol