Thank You NYGM! For my first nail-biting experience with SHIII

Originally Posted by Quagmire

Anyway the escorts perked to life and immediately charged my position. How did they know where I was? They never found me this quickly before?

uhm, thats strange because it always was like that in SH3 (Vanilla)... the escorts always know the position from where the torpedo was launched, not where the sub is...

1) Never leave your periscope up within 1000 meters of a convoy on clear day. I know it is cool to watch the BOOM but they will spot you.

that was in the stock game too... it depends how high you raise the periscope, keep it just a touch above the surface (so you can barely see something) and they wont detect it so fast...

2) They spot your periscope because they see the wake of your steam torps. NEVER use steam torps in the daylight.

Acutally its the same like for point 1. if they detect the steamwake they automatically know the position where it comes from - not where you/the sub is... but they will find you from this point anyway if you dont change the position...

3) Dive as soon as you release your fish. This gives you time to get deep and get out of there before the fish alert everyone. I didn't do this and I was still shallow when the destroyers were right on top of me.

no need to dive deep, but to change the position quiet and early is the key... after the detection of an attack or the wake they will search there, but if you changed the position early they dont find you... maybe

Just my experiences...

The NYGM website has more current projects listed. That fix for the no depth charging trawler is there.