Your worst Depth Charging

[u crank]

I don't like getting depth charged. It scratches the paint on my U-boat.

[vanjast]

Also a long time ago...

I was bounced around '43 by a single escort (or destroyer) near the convoy.
Very soon I had definitely 3 of them (maybe 4) above playing 'tag' with me.
No idea what they were as I play at 100%

One would sit there pinging me and the others would attack. They'd take turns. It lasted for around 8 hours Real Time - I got to bed very late
DC count.. no idea, I stopped counting, but they were salvos of around 4 - 8 each time... I don't think they ran out of DCs.

I spent the whole time at the sonar station, tracking each ship and avoiding each attack. I suffered un-repairable scope (both) damage, so after creeping away deep and slow.. I managed to escape after around 12 hours under, to return to base.

The best experience I've had in the game.

Originally Posted by vanjast

One would sit there pinging me and the others would attack.

I couldn't be so sure on 100% realism to say that one would sit pinging..

Unless I wished to be my story more exiting than ir actually was lol

[vanjast]

He was sitting there alright.. I'd follow his attack... then he'd buzz off to one side then stop engines. Then his pinging began... you'd get dual/triple pings happening.. then the one that was stationary.. suddenly came to life and would beam down on me.. this attack cycle would continue for hours.

It was a known method used - The Creeping Attack.. I think it was called.

If your are chased by 3 or more destroyers it might happen that one of them stops because they can't attack all in the same time. Destroyers also has a collision threat triggers among their ships so if collission threat happens one of the desroyers usually stops or gives reverse and stops for some time before re-engages the attack. But this is only coinsidence when such situation occurs

It might look as if the destroyer who stops does listening or pinging action like it was a smart AI, but the truth is more simple about these events

[desertstriker]

To bad the AI cant be upgraded

[cuthy2k]

From last night:

I have a little spot that I like to sit in off the coast of Northern Ireland, east of LondonDerry opposite the Scottish Island of Kintyre which has a pot of deep water.

I'm sitting there, using GWX 3 Gold picking off lone merchies early 1940 with the deck gun and larger ones using carefully aimed torps for 1 hit kills (hit the front mast, ship takes on water as it sails and goes down about 1-2 hours later).

Bored off the many ore carriers that pass through when all of a sudden sonar goes mental with many contacts approaching fast from the West heading into the safety of the British Isles.

I get into position, up scope... HMS Hood and a Revenge class battleship with 7 (yes SEVEN!) escorts. I consider chickening out and breaking off the attach, but then again, this opportunity dosent come along that often!

All 4 tubes flooded... 2 at each battleship. 4 hits!

The escorts then go mental! I fired from 4000m and as soon as the last torp left the tube I dived to 70m and headed in the opposite direction. A couple minutes later, an escort finds me and calls his brothers and sisters to the party.

3 hours RL they hunted me, depth now 150m. I tried every trick I could but there were 2 escorts sitting 1000 and 1300m away from the rest listening and coordinating the attacks for the others. The escorts were clambering over me like bank holiday traffic at the beach with lots of reversing and course changes.

I was only hit once, causing minor damage to the flak gun. 3 hours later, I somehow escaped! My tactic: sitting a few meters above the bottom on silent running and zero movement. The escorts must have gotten spooked by a false reading as they started DC'ing a contact a couple hundred meters away and kept at it. After 30 minutes of no sonar my way, I crawled off.

After all that, I didnt get one of the battleships who limped off with the decks almost awash