Being engaged by escorts...

[Janus]

Hi,
In my latest NYGM 3.0 patrol in December '43 I am engaged by a convoy escort for almost 4 hours game time now.
But for the last 2 hours game time or so the escort vessel has not depth charged me although it is still pinging me from time to time. I think it's not unlikely that the escort is out of depth charges.

How can I get rid of this bastard? I've been on silent running throughout the engagement and the convoy must even be out of my sonar range soon. I want to surface again and make contact with the convoy again but this escort is still lingering around
Is this a feature of NYGM (escorts trying to keep me underwater until I run out of oxygen and have to surface?) or is it just a SHIII "feature" when the escort does not notice that it apperantly is out of depth charges?

What would you do in my situation to get rid of the escort?

[bigboywooly]

SH3 feature
They carry on as if they still have some
Well the obvious solution is to try lose him
Deep and silent with slow turns

But if you havent managed that in the last 2 hours
The other alternative is to go to PD and send him a torp
Not realistic but then neither is an escort still making runs with no DCs
When he would have had another escort take over and returned to convoy or just left himself

Your call

[nirwana]

He wont leave u alone until the convoy is at least 50 km away or another sub is spotted somewhere else. If ure lucky the convoy will be attacked by AI-subs in which case he runs away with top speed and u will get frequently the position of the convoy from BdU. If u somehow manage to take him out another escort will zigzagging for a couple of hrs 10-20km away from the tail of the convoy forcing u to outflank the convoy out of any sensor range at great distance. Sometimes it takes me upto 3 sh3 days to get back in a descend attack position.

[Kipparikalle]

Just get to the nearest (full speed, you can cheat using the freecam to see the DD coming, and evade in time), deepest spot in the sea. And go as deepest, and silent as possible. Over 150m spot would be preferred.

Works everytime

[Jimbuna]

Well if that works every time, I'm definitely doing something wrong :hmm:

<reminds oneself to set all escort crew values to 'noob'>

[Kipparikalle]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Well if that works every time, I'm definitely doing something wrong :hmm:

<reminds oneself to set all escort crew values to 'noob'>

I meant to say mostly, don't know how that slipped there.

Anyway, if that fails. Go pop a cap in its ass and call it a day