Attackinng a convoy in 1943

[Heibges]

I was on the surface, in the middle of the Atlantic, at night, medium fog, wind 15ms, overcast, when a lone destroyer appeared out of nowhere and crossed my stern, on a perpendicular course, at about 400 to 500 meters.

I couldn't believe the destroyer couldn't see me.

[Ducimus]

What year?

[Heibges]

1942. it must not have been equiped with radar. lucky for me. in the limited visibility i would have been dead.

[Keelbuster]

That's wicked. I've had sh^t like that happen before.

Not realistic, but f$ckn intense.

Kb

[Heibges]

I don't know, it sounds like the situation Erich Topp describes in his SH2 interview.

The escort is bearing down on him, he can see the folks on the bridge, then it drops depth charges, and turns away. He couldn't believe he hadn't been spotted.

[mike_espo]

What's the trick? I attacked a convoy in Spr 43 with a IXC/40. Escort was ridculously easy to penetrate-way too close to the convoy. No air cover at all.

I guess random generated escorts are only a Km or so from the convoy. They need to be 5+Km distant to be effective escorts.

Anyway, I sneaked in during broad daylight right inside the columns fired 6 torps hit with 4 sunk 2 ships.

Way too easy for 1943...

[Heibges]

What mods are you using?

[SkvyWvr]

Originally Posted by Keelbuster

That's wicked. I've had sh^t like that happen before.

Not realistic, but f$ckn intense.

Kb

I think it's very realistic. I've been at sea and have almost had a collision with a guided missle cursier. The MkI ModIII eyeballs on both ships weren't working very well.

[mike_espo]

Originally Posted by Heibges

What mods are you using?

RuB 1.45, NYGM CMM, NYGM RuB campaign mod, Btty fix, Diesel mod, Emachinen mod, sky mod.

I tweaked the SIM.cfg file to make it easier for AI escorts to detect. I found out in mods forum that escorts detect using hydrophone and not ASDIC. So I changed noise level to 0.5, which is .05 less than stock RuB which is 1.0. Still, using silent running was able to sneak right through escort screen which is ridiculouosly close to convoy, if they were 5+km from convoy, they would have spotted me and forced me under. Then I allowed convoy to steam right over me...

Also, too bad that my presence would not start a random zig zag of convoy, Convoy just plodded along at 8kn....too easy

[Heibges]

This is from SH3/Data/Cfg/Sim. Does it apply to escorts of rust player sub? What if you increased the sensitivity of the hydrophones. I increased the visual sensitivity from .01 to .02 and fixed the problem of planes right on top of me in clear visibility.

What if you increased hydrophone sensitivity from .03 to .06

[Mech]
Waves amplitude=0.5 ;[0,1]
Waves attenuation=0.03 ;>=0

[AI Cannons]
Max error angle=4 ;[deg]
Max fire range=6000 ;[m]
Max fire wait=12 ;[s]

[AI AA guns]
Max error angle=8 ;[deg]
Max fire range=1000 ;[m]
Max fire wait=7 ;[s]

[AI detection]
Lost contact time=43

[Visual]
Detection time=0.5 ;[s] min detection time.
Sensitivity=0.01 ;(0..1) at (sensitivity * max range) we have a double detection time.
Fog factor=2.0 ;[>=0] was 1.0
Light factor=1.0 ;[>=0]
Waves factor=1.0 ;[>=0]
Enemy surface factor=400 ;[m2]
Enemy speed factor=15 ;[kt]

[Radar]
Detection time=1 ;[s]
Sensitivity=0.01 ;(0..1)
Waves factor=1.0 ;[>=0]
Enemy surface factor=5.0 ;[m2]

[Hydrophone]
Detection time=1 ;[s]
Sensitivity=0.03 ;(0..1)
Height factor=0 ;[m]
Waves factor=0.5 ;[>=0]
Speed factor=15 ;[kt]
Noise factor=1.0 ;[>=0]

[Sonar]
Detection time=20 ;[s]
Sensitivity=0.03 ;(0..1)
Waves factor=0.5 ;[>=0]
Speed factor=20 ;[kt]
Enemy surface factor=200 ;[m2]
Lose time=30

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by SkvyWvr

I think it's very realistic. I've been at sea and have almost had a collision with a guided missle cursier. The MkI ModIII eyeballs on both ships weren't working very well.

:rotfl:

[U-104]

Originally Posted by SkvyWvr

I think it's very realistic. I've been at sea and have almost had a collision with a guided missle cursier. The MkI ModIII eyeballs on both ships weren't working very well.

:rotfl: