Just Bought Silent Hunter III and Installed GWX 3.0

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by Jack Cutter

and I couldn't be happier!

I almost hate to admit it since I started on Silent Hunter IV, but Silent Hunter III seems to be more in-depth, ESPECIALLY with GWX mod.

This is amazing work by an amazing team, thank you all so much.


I am curious to know, however, why it seems evasion tactics WILL NOT work when I'm picked up by escorts...I had the crap pounded out of me by two British Destroyers. Evasive manuevers, diving deep and silencing the boat did nothing.

I'd turn and re-route only when they would make a depth-charging pass, and I'd adjust depth. Those destroyers had ungodly accurate sonar!

Anyways, there's really no point to this post other than to say that I absolutely love the GWX mod, and to wonder if I'm crazy for enjoying this better than Silent Hunter IV?

Anyways, I'll likely be posting about the escapades of Captain "Lukas Wilhelm" and his patrols.

A "feature" that has been built into the game (and from what I am told has remained in sh4 and sh5) is that escorts have sonar that is so advanced it can detect something as small as a pebble getting moved on the ocean floor 1000 feet below. GWX has done more to try and make sonar more resaonable, and it is possible to escape (may take you several hours of your time) from 2 or 3 DD's that are actively hunting you. The stock version is much less forgiving.

This means that tactics that were successfully employed to either defeat sonar or hide yourself don't work. There isn't much in the way of underwater geography, where there is any it isn't of any help like it was irl. Bottoming your boat won't throw the escorts of by thinking you've been sunk (whether you intentionally bottom the boat yourself, or damage bottoms it for you) or hide you from the sonar which irl either made you undistinguishable from the terrain, or the operator would loose you being unable to differentiate between the ocean floor and your sub which became camouflaged by the oceans natural enviroment.

Instead the DD's will get a perfect fix on you and start dumping charges on you like current day smart bombs. Unless you're boat survives a deep enough dive to where the charges won't function (believe its 200 or 225m is the max depth charges will still explode) and can get under them where all they do is explode above you bottoming is one of the worst situations you can be thrust into.