active sonar doctrine question

[Molon Labe]

Originally Posted by Rip

A single active ping to launch on in response to being fired at is a very good, and valid tactic. If the launch transient and launch are your initial detection an active range could give you a kill solution. You have to assume he had a decent firing solution on you.

I don't know the answer to whether the game can be trained to make this kind of reaction.

In MP I run into sub skippers that use active frequently. Given restricted operating areas and other factors it can actually often reward them with the cheap kill. I think this is the result of many "realists" disabling most of the auto crews. Few are the men that can effectively deal with all stations including TMA in a rich enviroment. Thos that can't deal often go active and use other such simple tactics. On top of that while I can handle all the stations it takes the fun out of it. Too much work to enjoy the tactical analysis. I think if you are going to disable all auto crews you should at least make it multi-station.

The problem with some of the more popular autocrew is that while the autocrew is freeing up your time (which is good sometimes), it is using information that cannot be known to the player...some autocrew are more than just time-management, they are cheats.