Who is pinging?

[Blacklight]

Oh yeah.. for later on in the war, it pays not to get pinged in the first place. You can pretty much kiss your shiny boat goodbye if they figure out your location. That's why it's important later on to REALLY use stealth with your approach of anything a warship is involved in (or don't go near anything that even looks like it's winking at a warship.) Plan that attack like you would plan a chess move (IE.. plan several moves in advance). As the war goes on, their sonar gets better and their pings can read deeper. With hedgehogs in the picture, you do NOT want them knowing where you are.

Also.. the name of this thread sounds like a potential future Dr. Seus book title.

[Uncle Goose]

Yeah, and if you have several DD's searching for you it might even happen that one DD nearly stops and listens with hydrophone and pinging while he directs another DD to the spot where you are.

[Grayson02sept1980]

just a little thing I want to add to "see" the DCs come down just raise the ObsScope enough to have a lookaround under water and you will see where the DCs are dropped and where the DDs pass you...

I do not know if this is relaistic... but to 100m even at night I can see them.

[Blacklight]

just a little thing I want to add to "see" the DCs come down just raise the ObsScope enough to have a lookaround under water and you will see where the DCs are dropped and where the DDs pass you...

I do not know if this is relaistic... but to 100m even at night I can see them.

Until you get in the situation I got into once where a DC bounced off the lens of my periscope and exploded.

[Grayson02sept1980]

Originally Posted by Blacklight

Until you get in the situation I got into once where a DC bounced off the lens of my periscope and exploded.

:rotflsorry this sounds so funny... I know that moment it was not)
how far was the scope out? I just get it out enough to have a good look around...

[Blacklight]

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Originally Posted by Blacklight
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just a little thing I want to add to "see" the DCs come down just raise the ObsScope enough to have a lookaround under water and you will see where the DCs are dropped and where the DDs pass you...

I do not know if this is relaistic... but to 100m even at night I can see them.

Until you get in the situation I got into once where a DC bounced off the lens of my periscope and exploded.


:rotflsorry this sounds so funny... I know that moment it was not)
how far was the scope out? I just get it out enough to have a good look around...

I had been persued by a destroyer in SHIII's default weather system (The megastorm). After an hour or so of being persued, I heard the engines of the destroyer get quieter and quieter and then vanish. So I assumed that it was gone. I went to persicope depth, raised the periscope about halfway and heard a *klunk* looked up, and the damn destroyer was sitting directly above me. Abruptly, I see the thing start it's engines and take off as I'm ordering a crash dive. I then see all these cans coming down in the water too close for comfort and one hit the periscope and blew up.

Yeah.. I'm that lucky.

[Grayson02sept1980]

Originally Posted by Blacklight

I had been persued by a destroyer in SHIII's default weather system (The megastorm). After an hour or so of being persued, I heard the engines of the destroyer get quieter and quieter and then vanish. So I assumed that it was gone. I went to persicope depth, raised the periscope about halfway and heard a *klunk* looked up, and the damn destroyer was sitting directly above me. Abruptly, I see the thing start it's engines and take off as I'm ordering a crash dive. I then see all these cans coming down in the water too close for comfort and one hit the periscope and blew up.

Yeah.. I'm that lucky.

sorry pal.... that "about halfway and heard a *klunk* looked up, and the damn destroyer was sitting directly above me" just killed me.... :rotfl: