What the heck am I doing wrong here?

bossfrog · 05-26-12, 10:14 PM

First off, I haven't played an sub sims since the early days of SHIII, though I used to play 688(i) extensively about 10 years ago. Just got the itch to play again and decided to go with SH4 Gold over SH5.

So I decide to do the Photo Recon on Batanga Bay quick mission to re-acclimate myself a little bit. But no matter what I do, the two Jap destroyers patrolling the entrance to the bay ALWAYS end up charging at me from over the horizon before I can get 5nm down course!

I've tried diving immediately to 150' and rigging for silent, call to battle stations to maximize efficiency of my crew, creeping along @ 2 knots, and they ALWAYS find me from long distance. Is stealth not possible in this game?

BTW, the manual for this game is absolutely worthless. Is there a more helpful manual out there that someone may have written? I'm assuming when the sonar guy actually does speak up and calls out a bearing, he's giving relative bearing, not absolute bearing, correct?

05-26-12, 10:14 PM	#1
bossfrog Watch Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 28 Downloads: 123 Uploads: 0	What the heck am I doing wrong here? First off, I haven't played an sub sims since the early days of SHIII, though I used to play 688(i) extensively about 10 years ago. Just got the itch to play again and decided to go with SH4 Gold over SH5. So I decide to do the Photo Recon on Batanga Bay quick mission to re-acclimate myself a little bit. But no matter what I do, the two Jap destroyers patrolling the entrance to the bay ALWAYS end up charging at me from over the horizon before I can get 5nm down course! I've tried diving immediately to 150' and rigging for silent, call to battle stations to maximize efficiency of my crew, creeping along @ 2 knots, and they ALWAYS find me from long distance. Is stealth not possible in this game? BTW, the manual for this game is absolutely worthless. Is there a more helpful manual out there that someone may have written? I'm assuming when the sonar guy actually does speak up and calls out a bearing, he's giving relative bearing, not absolute bearing, correct?