Passing thermal layer and DC's attack?

NEON DEON · 03-28-07, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Steeltrap

The escorts will use the tracks of your torps to estimate your position when you fired them and attack that area fairly immediately. I'm guessing that's what you saw.

I've noticed the depth changing abilities of the subs seem to be grossly inflated. Would take well over half an hour for a US sub to get back to periscope depth from around 300' under usual circumstances (pretty sure that's what Dick O'Kane says in Wahoo).

As for being able to control your depth like that while stationary, that's just nonsense.

Lets see.

300 - 60 = 240

240 / 30 = 8

8 feet a minute rise?

I dont think he was trying very hard.

NefariousKoel · 03-29-07, 12:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NEON DEON

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steeltrap

The escorts will use the tracks of your torps to estimate your position when you fired them and attack that area fairly immediately. I'm guessing that's what you saw.

I've noticed the depth changing abilities of the subs seem to be grossly inflated. Would take well over half an hour for a US sub to get back to periscope depth from around 300' under usual circumstances (pretty sure that's what Dick O'Kane says in Wahoo).

As for being able to control your depth like that while stationary, that's just nonsense.

Lets see.

300 - 60 = 240

240 / 30 = 8

8 feet a minute rise?

I dont think he was trying very hard.

LOL.

In Steeltrap's defense he probably read 'seemed like 30 minutes' as "it took 30 minutes."

That's what paraphrasing gets you.

E.Hartmann · 04-04-07, 11:09 AM

How do I go deeper than the 165'. (Besides having a hole in my boat!! :rotfl: )

Floyd · 04-04-07, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by E.Hartmann

How do I go deeper than the 165'. (Besides having a hole in my boat!! :rotfl: )

Click below the depth gauge to get the second, larger scale.

GOZO · 08-19-09, 06:01 AM

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Originally Posted by E.Hartmann

How do I go deeper than the 165'. (Besides having a hole in my boat!! :rotfl: )

"Shift D" does it as well.

/OB

ddiplock · 08-19-09, 10:35 AM

I was in my Balao sub the other day, all the way down at 570ft, nearly 200ft past test depth, under DC attack from a sub chaser and a destroyer who'd spotted me.

Despite me being that deep, and below the thermal layer, they were constantly getting a fix on me with their ASDIC. Did the Japs actually become very good sub hunters later in the war??

In the end I actually got bored and re-loaded the game and headed in a different direction as I couldnt' seem to shake them even with my constant maneuvering. lol

Rockin Robbins · 08-19-09, 10:51 AM

Yes, the Japanese did get much better toward the end of the war. But their elite crews were well thinned out, as were their escort fleet. If a sub found themselves unlucky enough to get stuck below a crack escort with a veteran crew they were in big trouble indeed!

TwinStackPete379 · 08-22-09, 03:02 AM

yeah digital, i thought that too, when they slow down or stop, i assumed they were listening hard, so usually drop deeper and slow to 1 knt waiting to hit the evasive turn

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ddiplock Samurai Navy Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Scotland, UK Posts: 552 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	I was in my Balao sub the other day, all the way down at 570ft, nearly 200ft past test depth, under DC attack from a sub chaser and a destroyer who'd spotted me. Despite me being that deep, and below the thermal layer, they were constantly getting a fix on me with their ASDIC. Did the Japs actually become very good sub hunters later in the war?? In the end I actually got bored and re-loaded the game and headed in a different direction as I couldnt' seem to shake them even with my constant maneuvering. lol

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TwinStackPete379 Gunner Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: In my chair playing SHIV Posts: 99 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	yeah digital, i thought that too, when they slow down or stop, i assumed they were listening hard, so usually drop deeper and slow to 1 knt waiting to hit the evasive turn