Great book - Page 2

John Pancoast · 01-27-21, 04:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fifi

I could add destroyer escorts used to run ASDIC almost all the time...even when no U-Boat around. As a preventive...

Yep he mentions they did too but more of it being just routine procedure vs. a preventive measure.
Describes a constant sweeping back and forth with it per the thread's original comments.
Modeled in AOD.

John Pancoast · 01-27-21, 04:55 AM

Correction; in the latter pages he does mention hydrophones. "...hydrophones had not been used to hunt submarines since the early days of WW1"
Interesting.

John Pancoast · 01-27-21, 05:40 AM

Asdic could pick up targets astern of the asw ship.

John Pancoast · 01-27-21, 07:07 AM

The escorts not continually searching via asdic seems to me the single biggest flaw that causes the weak SH3 escort ai. Hf-Df not being modeled doesn't help.
If there was a way to eliminate the hydrophones and enable the asdic to continously search that would be a huge step.
But the game only uses asdic after a hydrophone contact and I believe that is hard coded.

John Pancoast · 01-27-21, 05:13 PM

Experimented a little, commented out the hydrophone and sonar sections of the sim.cfg file. Doing so has the game use the "maxed out" settings of the .exe file.
Loaded up the Gibralter mission looking for trouble. Charged at a single escort, crash dove when spotted and after a bit had over twenty escorts above me !
So much for that idea.

Still got away with minor damage though.

Fifi · 01-27-21, 05:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John Pancoast

Experimented a little, commented out the hydrophone and sonar sections of the sim.cfg file. Doing so has the game use the "maxed out" settings of the .exe file.
Loaded up the Gibralter mission looking for trouble. Charged at a single escort, crash dove when spotted and after a bit had over twenty escorts above me !
So much for that idea.

Still got away with minor damage though.

... maybe a good find!

John Pancoast · 01-27-21, 05:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fifi

... maybe a good find!

I think half the Royal Navy was there !

I took a screenshot but for some reason where I tried to upload it said "file type not supported" even though I've put .bmp files there before.
Strange.

01-27-21, 04:55 AM	#17
John Pancoast Ocean Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Minnysoda Posts: 3,178 Downloads: 490 Uploads: 4	Correction; in the latter pages he does mention hydrophones. "...hydrophones had not been used to hunt submarines since the early days of WW1" Interesting. __________________ "Realistic" is not always GAME-GOOD." - Wave Skipper

01-27-21, 05:40 AM	#18
John Pancoast Ocean Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Minnysoda Posts: 3,178 Downloads: 490 Uploads: 4	Asdic could pick up targets astern of the asw ship. __________________ "Realistic" is not always GAME-GOOD." - Wave Skipper

01-27-21, 07:07 AM	#19
John Pancoast Ocean Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Minnysoda Posts: 3,178 Downloads: 490 Uploads: 4	The escorts not continually searching via asdic seems to me the single biggest flaw that causes the weak SH3 escort ai. Hf-Df not being modeled doesn't help. If there was a way to eliminate the hydrophones and enable the asdic to continously search that would be a huge step. But the game only uses asdic after a hydrophone contact and I believe that is hard coded. __________________ "Realistic" is not always GAME-GOOD." - Wave Skipper Last edited by John Pancoast; 01-27-21 at 07:18 AM.

01-27-21, 05:13 PM	#20
John Pancoast Ocean Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Minnysoda Posts: 3,178 Downloads: 490 Uploads: 4	Experimented a little, commented out the hydrophone and sonar sections of the sim.cfg file. Doing so has the game use the "maxed out" settings of the .exe file. Loaded up the Gibralter mission looking for trouble. Charged at a single escort, crash dove when spotted and after a bit had over twenty escorts above me ! So much for that idea. Still got away with minor damage though. __________________ "Realistic" is not always GAME-GOOD." - Wave Skipper