Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by MKalafatas

Survived. Thanks again, Bubblehead.

Your assurance that I could be patient was crucial. Without it I would have fired all my torpedoes at these mosquitoes without effect, and battle-surfaced to my doom.

I tried the "Dykers" method, with mixed results. For some reason, even at flank speed, my (undamaged) boat would not exceed 4 knots --- the same velocity as at 2/3 speed. So I ran at 2/3 to conserve the battery when escorts were making their run, and stopped engines to coast and turn.

At one point an airplane dropped depth charges right in the middle of the circling escorts, but without effect to my sub.

"Dykers" did perhaps give me more space but the escorts were still close, still pinging.

Finally I stopped engines to wait for nightfall. At this point the escorts spread out, and also stopped engines, listening. Well after sunset I went to 50 rpms, crept away at 0.25 knots, and escaped.

When I finally surfaced and finished recharging batteries, it was 0300 ---- 21 hours after the Chitose was sunk.

Don't wish to experience that again, but TMO is great!

Just bc they are pinging, does not not mean they have you.Sure, you are close enough to hear it but they are searching, esp if its long scale pings.Mainly, its a game of chicken almost, just stay calm, when they are overhead, go ahead flank so you dont sit through the pattern and have your boat torn apart.Make the constant course changes like I told you, they will lose you, they may stay near you, keep pinging and even make a run your way but they are searching,, battery and O2 is getting low? like I said, dont freak.Really takes a long time for your battery to drain at 1/3 and if igets critical, say 8 percent or below, go to 1 1/2 knot, dont worrk about Co2 until its90- 95 percent or so, still you have a while.There was a time in TMO where escorts keep me down nearly 48 hours, they caught me in the Java Sea in 1943, They were the A team for sure, but like I said, just stay calm, if theyve tracked you that long, they dont really have you, they are just waiting you out.That is one thing I miss about TMO without RSRD, the escorts are more persistent and vicious but cant enjoy the game without RSRD these days.