New to the game

FanBoy2006.01 · 09-07-19, 04:10 PM

Hello all.

I new to Cold Waters and have only played this game/simulation for two weeks. I must say that this sim is very cold and unforgiving.
But as far as I have read, naval warfare seems to be an extremely deadly business.

The farthest I have come so far is successfully completing 4 missions without being sent to the bottom (On realistic difficulty). This is on the current 1984 campaign I am playing.

I must also say that I was very pleasantly surprised about the number of playable US Navy subs that come with the vanilla game as well as three USSR era subs.

But I have to ask two things:
1. Do more modern ASW ships (In game) have towed arrays that they can employ below thermal layers (If layer is shallow enough)?

2. Can helicopter dipping sonar do the same?

3. Also if I go to 50ft and face surface ships head on, will this create problems for surface ships active sonar detection range?

4. Is it a "cheat" to use torpedoes in passive mode only? With that I mean would this be very ineffective in real life compared to in game? The reason that I ask is because I never set torpedoes to active mode.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Hope everybody have a great gaming weekend.

09-07-19, 04:10 PM	#1
FanBoy2006.01 Swabbie Join Date: Oct 2017 Location: Gauteng, South Africa Posts: 5 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	New to the game Hello all. I new to Cold Waters and have only played this game/simulation for two weeks. I must say that this sim is very cold and unforgiving. But as far as I have read, naval warfare seems to be an extremely deadly business. The farthest I have come so far is successfully completing 4 missions without being sent to the bottom (On realistic difficulty). This is on the current 1984 campaign I am playing. I must also say that I was very pleasantly surprised about the number of playable US Navy subs that come with the vanilla game as well as three USSR era subs. But I have to ask two things: 1. Do more modern ASW ships (In game) have towed arrays that they can employ below thermal layers (If layer is shallow enough)? 2. Can helicopter dipping sonar do the same? 3. Also if I go to 50ft and face surface ships head on, will this create problems for surface ships active sonar detection range? 4. Is it a "cheat" to use torpedoes in passive mode only? With that I mean would this be very ineffective in real life compared to in game? The reason that I ask is because I never set torpedoes to active mode. Any feedback would be appreciated. Hope everybody have a great gaming weekend.