can't get rid of destroyers

[Dronston]

Originally Posted by sublynx

NYGM, GWX, LSH or vanilla? What is the sea condition and visibility? Day or night? Do you use Stiebler's and/or h.sie's mods? Do you have a guesstimate of who the escorts are? Are they equally good at detecting you? Do they have radar? Any corvettes? Have they lost contact with you for a longer time?

90 meters is pretty awful. I sure hope the seas are at least rough. One mistake I've done is to take the depth charges in the water alarm too seriously. Often the dc's are dropped quite a distance from me. If you cause noise by escaping faster they might spot you again. Changing depth at times and maybe even 0 Rpm at times might be of help. Try to guess where the escort depth charging you is going to turn aftef its run and turn away from it. Go port if it turns to starboard. The one dc'ing you might not be the one that needs to be avoided most. It might be the one going very slowly perhaps listening to you.When you have to use speed try to gain distance to the one escort that you think is the best at spotting you.

I hope someone with shallow water experience can help you with some hints. I haven't been hunted in those kind of waters in years.

Good luck!

GWX. Sea is calm, flat no waves whatsoever, at the moment it's about 1 pm, no clouds, visibilty at max... No Stiebler's and/or h.sie's mods. No idea who the escorts are, all seem equally 'talented'. I'm not good at understanding the difference between destroyers and corvettes, one of them is smaller than the res, don't know if they have radar, they never saw me on the surface or detected me before my attack.

The way I try to escape is to go slow (silent running of course) until depth charges are released, than I speed up to avoid them, sometimes I order hard rudder starboard or port. As soon as I think the last charge detonated or when they explode far away I order 1 knot again. I tried to vary my depth but I need some water above me to outrun the charges. Problem in this case is that I am being constantly pinged so I never seem to be 'lost'.

I also tried to just hover in the water at 0 speed but that almost got me killed and damaged my forward deck and cannon and flak gun. I guess I will also avoid shallow waters for a while if I survive this ordeal.