Active sonar after firing torps

[Molon Labe]

Originally Posted by Nelixdog

With this in mind, does it cause me any tactical disadvantage to ping the enemy just after I fire my torps.

Well, first of all, there is a problem in your assumption that your opponent will get a TIW at launch. If you get on the other side of the layer prior to firing, you should be able to get a few miles run out of your weapons before the TIW is triggered. You can also use terrain to get a runout prior to the weapons being detected.

With that out of the way, a ping at the time of a TIW won't hurt you most of the time. What it will do is increase your opponent's situational awareness. Battles can get chaotic at times, with TIW calls coming in from distant platforms shooting at each other and a sonar picture that is sometimes too messy to put together under pressure. A ping immediately following a TIW on the same bearing as the TIW tells the target that the shooter is a sub and the target is probably also a sub, and the volume of the ping might even give him/her a very rough range estimate.

I don't play MP but when I try this in SP....

Wait, you're asking about tactical disadvantages against AI?

Anti AI tactics are simple. Use enough speed discipline to get first detection (doesn't take much), get a solution, close to effective range, but not any closer than you have to, shoot, evade if necessary. Rinse, repeat.