Need some advice with underwater evasion...

Sardaukar67 · 04-15-07, 06:41 AM

I' playing NYGM and find enemy ASW ships very challenging...I'd say daunting. So far I haven't been able to evade escort groups but once when they ping me...and this is only 1939-early 1940, captaining shiny VIIIB U-Boat.

Radical course changes with high speed, then going silent with 1 knot etc. do not work. After a minute I get "Enemy is pinging us!"

Getting sub pointed away/towards escorts to reduce profile does not seem to work either...they seem to have unreal ability to detect the sub, be the profile/distance be whatever. Managed to survive 20 hrs underwater against DD, Black Swan frigate and couple of Flower corvettes in shallow (110 m water depth) but no matter what I did I could not shake them off.

Same happened when couple of V&W destroyers who spotted me when cruising towards home...even when going down to 150 m and doing every maneuver I could think of, they DC'd me out of existence.

Any ideas/help ? How do you survive situations like that ? Or is it "game reload time" every time I get spotted by multiple ASW ships ?

04-15-07, 06:41 AM	#1
Sardaukar67 Machinist's Mate Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 126 Downloads: 64 Uploads: 0	Need some advice with underwater evasion... I' playing NYGM and find enemy ASW ships very challenging...I'd say daunting. So far I haven't been able to evade escort groups but once when they ping me...and this is only 1939-early 1940, captaining shiny VIIIB U-Boat. Radical course changes with high speed, then going silent with 1 knot etc. do not work. After a minute I get "Enemy is pinging us!" Getting sub pointed away/towards escorts to reduce profile does not seem to work either...they seem to have unreal ability to detect the sub, be the profile/distance be whatever. Managed to survive 20 hrs underwater against DD, Black Swan frigate and couple of Flower corvettes in shallow (110 m water depth) but no matter what I did I could not shake them off. Same happened when couple of V&W destroyers who spotted me when cruising towards home...even when going down to 150 m and doing every maneuver I could think of, they DC'd me out of existence. Any ideas/help ? How do you survive situations like that ? Or is it "game reload time" every time I get spotted by multiple ASW ships ?