Evasive tactics: easier in real life???

[_Seth_]

Originally Posted by TarJak

One thing that annoys the crap out of me is the accuracy of allied sonar/ASDIC when detecting my uboat when I'm in the middle of a convoy going at some speed. In RL under these circumstances they hydrophones are next to useless and even an acitve ping will be very lucky to locate a shallow submarine in amongst all the hull movements in the convoy. Then the escorts come charging in and dropping DC's in amongst the convoy lines. Something a RL DD commander would turn pale at.

True. i often use the convoys as a "shield" against enemy sonar, but they always seems to find me, no matter what i do..