Any hope for shallow water victim?

danmir · 06-15-07, 12:19 PM

I have this same problem, shallow waters are just death for me at the moment. I have read some good suggestions on the boards here and mean to try them at my next unavoidable shallow encounter:
1) if its just one DD, and you hear the active pinging, they are not being passive, so crank up the speed and try and get some distance
2) Likewise, if they are not pinging be silent
3) if you are being pinged, show them your narrowest aspect so they get a smaller return (point bow or stern towards them)
4) try and take advantage of their baffles. From what I gather, ADSIC only applies about +/- 45 to 60 degrees off the DD bow, so if you get farther off than that, you "should" be safe. Also, I think DD passive listening applies +/- 135 degrees off their bow, so get in the rear quarter and you are invisible.
5) ADSIC range is limited to "only" 1-2.5 km (longer later in the war, closer earlier), so if you can spend some time in the baffles at high speed, maybe you can get out of this range.

Some other points:
1) I'm think I'm getting too jumpy and turning too much trying to evade my enemy, ending up in not much distance made. Next time I plan to keep a cool head, and plot on my map contact updates and my position as much as possible. This is so I can get a better idea of my enemy's course and more importantly, see how long I have traveled down a course, so I don't end up turning before any real distance has been made.

2) Sitting on the bottom has not worked for me at all. You would think that it would be difficult to distinguish the sea bottom clutter return from a sub since they are about the same height, but in my experience enemy destroyers will.

3) I don't really understand the damage control section, so its not clear to me what the effects are

. I did find out at one point though, losing your compressor seems to be about the worst thing that can happen, without it I seemed to just gradually sink. And in if I moved I seemed to be taking more damage from scraping on the sea floor

06-15-07, 12:19 PM	#16
danmir Swabbie Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 12 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I have this same problem, shallow waters are just death for me at the moment. I have read some good suggestions on the boards here and mean to try them at my next unavoidable shallow encounter: 1) if its just one DD, and you hear the active pinging, they are not being passive, so crank up the speed and try and get some distance 2) Likewise, if they are not pinging be silent 3) if you are being pinged, show them your narrowest aspect so they get a smaller return (point bow or stern towards them) 4) try and take advantage of their baffles. From what I gather, ADSIC only applies about +/- 45 to 60 degrees off the DD bow, so if you get farther off than that, you "should" be safe. Also, I think DD passive listening applies +/- 135 degrees off their bow, so get in the rear quarter and you are invisible. 5) ADSIC range is limited to "only" 1-2.5 km (longer later in the war, closer earlier), so if you can spend some time in the baffles at high speed, maybe you can get out of this range. Some other points: 1) I'm think I'm getting too jumpy and turning too much trying to evade my enemy, ending up in not much distance made. Next time I plan to keep a cool head, and plot on my map contact updates and my position as much as possible. This is so I can get a better idea of my enemy's course and more importantly, see how long I have traveled down a course, so I don't end up turning before any real distance has been made. 2) Sitting on the bottom has not worked for me at all. You would think that it would be difficult to distinguish the sea bottom clutter return from a sub since they are about the same height, but in my experience enemy destroyers will. 3) I don't really understand the damage control section, so its not clear to me what the effects are . I did find out at one point though, losing your compressor seems to be about the worst thing that can happen, without it I seemed to just gradually sink. And in if I moved I seemed to be taking more damage from scraping on the sea floor