"The All Knowing" destroyer syndrome

[utops]

Originally Posted by skwasjer

I sank a carrier by sneaking inside the protective ring of 10 DD's (I was like wtf?), this was a night attack, submerged, engines off. I fired a salvo of 4 from about 600m away. When they hit, the 5 DD's that were behind me starting using their searchlights to the outside of the ring and searched there, and obviously they never found me as I was on the inside (I snuck out of the gap they left on the rear). So apparantly they 'can' be confused about where the exact location of the attack came from...

In game loading screen, there is a tip related to such a behaviour, it say that, the best method of atacking well protected convoys is to get inside because escorts will be always looking for you outside.

[thruster]

without trying to hijack the thread,
can someone confirm that damaged ships eventually slow and drop out of the convoy screen?

cheers

[Merlin.75]

Originally Posted by thruster

without trying to hijack the thread,
can someone confirm that damaged ships eventually slow and drop out of the convoy screen?

cheers

I can confirm they have done this.

[Mondaiji]

Originally Posted by thruster

without trying to hijack the thread,
can someone confirm that damaged ships eventually slow and drop out of the convoy screen?

cheers

That depends on the convoy. For example i had a convoy of something around 9 destroyer 1 battle cruiser 1 battleship and a aircraft carrier. If i disable the aircraft carrier the convoy stay with the battleship .. well 2 destroyer stay with the carrier the rest keeps going. If i disable the battleship 7 destroyer stay with it. So i would say some ships have a escort that always stay's with them.

[longam]

Originally Posted by utops

In game loading screen, there is a tip related to such a behaviour, it say that, the best method of atacking well protected convoys is to get inside because escorts will be always looking for you outside.

Wasnt that the way they did it early on? Also the date would make a difference on how good the sonar was at the time I would think.