GWX task force escort behavior

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter

ANOTHER add on to that situation is that it's possible the destroyer workers were novices, little short of competent, and they panicked and ran.

They weren't very competent, that's for sure. I fired my first salvo from within the destroyer screen, and immediately started drifting downwards at silent speed. When the first destroyer got near me, I was at less than 30 meters depth, and the destroyer didn't even attempt dropping any depth charges. During the whole escape, I didn't hear a single depth charge being dropped, or a single asdic ping.

Of course, the weather was bad for listening, with 15 m/s wind, and I was as silent as possible. They just didn't hear me at any point, so they searched the area I had fired from for 30 minutes and then gave up. I used the free camera to watch what they were doing, and noticed that at least one of them was stationary at all time, listening, while the others were moving around the area. Had I tried to use more speed to get deeper fast, things might have turned out a lot worse for me.