Stubborn British Patrol Boat

Nathan King · 08-20-07, 04:20 PM

Hello,

Before I get to my question I must say that Subsim.com is a wonderful resource! I am a real flight sim junkie, but played the original Silent Hunter a long time ago. I saw an ad for SHIII recently and jumped on it. Boy has the series matured!!

GWX is awesome too

I was completing a practice mission and sunk a few ships. I dove down to the beginning of the depth meters "red band" to avoid the destroyers. After a few depth charge attacks (and some repairs) I got away. I rigged for silent running and kept the engine RPM's below 200. After the hydrophone technician lost all contacts I started to slowly creep back up. Anyway, I was followed by a British patrol boat for hours. I never heard a ping, so he would have needed to hear me to keep in contact. How would this happen since I was rigged for silent running, going VERY slowly, and running deep? I bet I was under a thermal layer anyway.

I stopped the boat and raised the periscope. He just kept circling with a radius of around 250 meters. I was running low on battery power and high on CO2 levels, so I had to attack. I couldn't get a fix with the torpedoes, so I surfaced and sunk him with the deck gun. How in the world did he seem to know where I am without prior knowledge of my position and without active radar while I was deep and running silent? Why didn't he attack or call for destroyers if he knew I was there?

I read the "AI Demystified" thread, but it didn't really turn anything up.

Thanks

08-20-07, 04:20 PM	#1
Nathan King Swabbie Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 5 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Stubborn British Patrol Boat Hello, Before I get to my question I must say that Subsim.com is a wonderful resource! I am a real flight sim junkie, but played the original Silent Hunter a long time ago. I saw an ad for SHIII recently and jumped on it. Boy has the series matured!! GWX is awesome too I was completing a practice mission and sunk a few ships. I dove down to the beginning of the depth meters "red band" to avoid the destroyers. After a few depth charge attacks (and some repairs) I got away. I rigged for silent running and kept the engine RPM's below 200. After the hydrophone technician lost all contacts I started to slowly creep back up. Anyway, I was followed by a British patrol boat for hours. I never heard a ping, so he would have needed to hear me to keep in contact. How would this happen since I was rigged for silent running, going VERY slowly, and running deep? I bet I was under a thermal layer anyway. I stopped the boat and raised the periscope. He just kept circling with a radius of around 250 meters. I was running low on battery power and high on CO2 levels, so I had to attack. I couldn't get a fix with the torpedoes, so I surfaced and sunk him with the deck gun. How in the world did he seem to know where I am without prior knowledge of my position and without active radar while I was deep and running silent? Why didn't he attack or call for destroyers if he knew I was there? I read the "AI Demystified" thread, but it didn't really turn anything up. Thanks