Detection Distance Question

gimpy117 · 06-11-08, 10:25 PM

did you ping or check depth??

-Pv- · 06-11-08, 10:47 PM

Your "gestimate" of 10NM is not precise enough to advise you. Depending on conditions, your profile to the enemy, speed, you might well have been seen and/or heard. If the escort was stopped and listening, you can be detected even easier. There may have been another enemy asset you didn't detect like a fishing boat which might have reported you. No matter how dark it is, you can still be seen if you are close enough and/or noisy enough.

To sneak up on an alert and expert enemy on the surface in this game, you have to have a low profile (pointed directly at or away) go as slow as possible, and submerged to deck awash.
-Pv-

06-11-08, 10:25 PM	#1
gimpy117 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Kalamazoo, MI Posts: 3,243 Downloads: 108 Uploads: 0	did you ping or check depth?? __________________ Member of the Subsim Zombie Army

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06-11-08, 10:47 PM	#2
-Pv- The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,434 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Your "gestimate" of 10NM is not precise enough to advise you. Depending on conditions, your profile to the enemy, speed, you might well have been seen and/or heard. If the escort was stopped and listening, you can be detected even easier. There may have been another enemy asset you didn't detect like a fishing boat which might have reported you. No matter how dark it is, you can still be seen if you are close enough and/or noisy enough. To sneak up on an alert and expert enemy on the surface in this game, you have to have a low profile (pointed directly at or away) go as slow as possible, and submerged to deck awash. -Pv-