destroyers in gwx

[ober lt lare]

then whats the best tactic to you use to evade them in gwx i turned the other way and the corvette continued to follow me for 7 hours how do you make them give up then

ober lt lare

[Corsair]

See post above... Deep, slow and silent.

[stabiz]

Set speed to 2 knots, go as deep as you can (200+ meters) and eventually they will go away. You cant go very deep many times, though. as the hull will collapse eventually.

Deploy bolds, make sharp turns, etc.

[fredbass]

Here are a few things to try which may help:

Don't always wait around at periscope depth waiting to see what happens after you've fired your torps.

Shoot from greater distances than b4 which helps sometimes as well.

Don't always shoot for the closest target.

[bigboywooly]

Only just evaded 4 destroyers myself while testing a new MP mission
Set speed to 1 kt and you can do it
I was off Scotland and water was only 70m deep so no chance of going real deep
It can be done but you need to change your playing style
This aint the arcade game of the stock version

[Pants]

Just got away from 2 Hunt I's, 2 V&W's and 2 Flowers....it is possible, Take all the Late war tactics you have learnt in other mods and throw it out the window

This is a whole new ball game, early war, use some of the tactics you learned before...Late war it's a combination of turns, different depths and silent running..Don't forget Your Decoys have just become your new best friend.

[Boris]

I tried entering Loch Ewe today, approaching the entrance at PD and silent running. I must have got too close to an armed trawler, because he turned in exactly my direction. I pointed my rear in his direction and set a torp to magnetic, below the depth of his keel. I went full ahead to get his attention, then waited until he was only 300m away and let out the torp. He blew up in a massive fireball. This got the attention of a second armed trawler.
He went straight for me as well. This time I put my engines on all back, pointing my bow in his face, attempting to do the same trick as before. I must have got nervous because I let thos one rip at about 400m and he managed to avoid it by the skin of his teeth.
I then kept turning in circles, out-turning him. He couldn't get a run over me to drop his charges. I got another solution, guessed his speed and fired another torp when he was 90 AOB. I missed by like a meter in front of him. I tried the same thing again, and missed by the same margin behind his rear. At this point I was out of torps, wondering how I'm going to get away with this in 25m of water. But the trawler steamed off north... and I got out of there at silent running.

Did I scare him or something? The bastard survived three very close shots indeed.

[danlisa]

Didn't someone put advice on how to escape DD's etc in the manual?:hmm:

[rascal101]

Hi there,
I just started a new career in 39, and jumped a convoy in 35 meters off UK Eastern coast in a bad storm. I found it easy to loose the destroyers going to speeds of as little as 1 knot, even turning engines off at times.

The destroyers seemed a little dumb, as it’s only the beginning of the war, I think I was lucky, the corvettes were only mildly threatening; while the destroyers were more of a challenge.

Finally shook the escorts late at night and made a surface attack, and wow, GWX team, you have done it, the laser light show to end all. search lights star shells the lot.

Impressions so far. Night time attacks are very good, damage model seems to be good, loved hitting a Pyro and destroyer, boy did they explode nicely, great sound too.

A little worried as the escorts seemed a little stupid, but what the hell it's only 1939 and they have a thing or two to learn. Kind of missed the destroyer patrols from NYGM, but again its early days yet.

Thanks GWX team

PS Looking forward to a fix that allows raising and lowering the radio direction finder on the conning tower, then I recon SH3 will be about there.

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by rascal101

PS Looking forward to a fix that allows raising and lowering the radio direction finder on the conning tower, then I recon SH3 will be about there.

Yes Ref ran out of time to include that
He is only one man after all

Hopefully in a planned update

[Dowly]

Keep it silent. If you are close to a convoy, the best bet is to be on silent run and at speed of 1-2KTS.