First Time Sunk By DC

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Originally Posted by Armistead

Most modders agree that BS has no effect on silent running, nor can the enemy hear you blow tanks. Blowing tanks should cause you to surface, but they don't. Often when under attack by mean escorts like the Type AB I'll blow tanks as it starts a run. It takes you up fast enough that his charges will fall under you.

The most important thing with cams off is sound. You will hear much better by being in the con tower and looking up. With my 5.1 speakers I get better directional sound if I look up at the ceiling and start looking in directions. You can easily tell what direction a escort is coming. I assume you can in stock, but with most mods you can hear the charges hitting the water, but much better looking up in the tower. I can then judge about how his pattern will fall. Most escorts attack from the rear, but vet to elite escorts come at you from all directions and will drop at different times. A escort attacking from the rear is easily defeated, just be deep enough and hit flank and charges will fall behind. It's when they come in from angles it gets difficult. Staying slow under attack is sure death using TMO.

You can also judge the charge pattern by the way it tosses your sub. If your sub rolls to the right, you know charges are on the left. If you're being bounced around both sides, you're in trouble.

Thanks for the tips. I'm never too sure what to do as far as evasion is concerned. I've has some luck in escaping DC attacks, but it's usually do to deep silent and slow manuvering over a significant period of time. I was sunk on the very next patrol after losing the sub subject of this thread. Same thing at the same area. I was deep in a Gato and getting a little "cute" with my evasion tactics, manuvers that evidently provided them with a beacon to my location. No slow sinking this time, it was just explosions, sparks, and lights out.

I use sound much the way you do, although I wear headphones (don't want my wife to hear what I'm doing with my spare time). I agree with you on being in the conning tower, it's where I spend 100 pecent of my combat time with the exception of the maps. You can hear much better from there and I've noticed that the crew with sort of crouch when the DCs hit the water. I've been hesitant to use full speed, but I guess it makes sense since they know you're there anyway (otherwise they wouldn't be dropping DCs on you).

Thanks again for the tips. I'll try them out on my next bout with an angry escort... And I do enjoy making them angry.