How deep do they DC you ?

[oscar19681]

I,m running magnum opus . I,m not sure how it was in stock sh-5 but whenever i go under 150 - 160 meters i get away with every single depth charge attack. My boats get shaken a bit from time to time but thats mainly because the DC,S drop over me insted of near me and i never get hurt. I study,d the destoyers behavure and they never seem to throw deeper then 100 to 120 meters it seems. It could be offcourse this is in the game since its still april 1941 in my game . But if they continue to do so untill 1943 i shure as hell wont have anything to fear from destoyers in deep waters.

[Karle94]

Originally Posted by oscar19681

I,m running magnum opus . I,m not sure how it was in stock sh-5 but whenever i go under 150 - 160 meters i get away with every single depth charge attack. My boats get shaken a bit from time to time but thats mainly because the DC,S drop over me insted of near me and i never get hurt. I study,d the destoyers behavure and they never seem to throw deeper then 100 to 120 meters it seems. It could be offcourse this is in the game since its still april 1941 in my game . But if they continue to do so untill 1943 i shure as hell wont have anything to fear from destoyers in deep waters.

I think it was in SHV that I saw a quote saying that the Type 7 was capable of going 100 meters deeper than the max depth of the standard British depth charge.

[mr.artur_96]

Im also running magnum opus and I dont have such a problem... also thats a hell of a problem to run away from destroyers. At 150 m they still can make my U-boot "shaking". Ones I have sunk battleship and thoes damn destroyers was pinging me for 23 hours... Finally they won...

[oscar19681]

Yes i get shaken from time to time as well. But i study,d the DC,s when dropped . And they always explode at about 100 meters.

[mr.artur_96]

Originally Posted by oscar19681

Yes i get shaken from time to time as well. But i study,d the DC,s when dropped . And they always explode at about 100 meters.

Meybe bug? As I remember at the beginning of war max depth of dc was abot 150 m.

[oscar19681]

Also i tried setting max depth to 250 meters . But when passing 200 meters i start getting hull damage. So the stock settings remain. I can see the dail showing max depth 250 meters but i never make it there. Maybe i should set max depth in Goblin?

[oscar19681]

anyone?

[oscar19681]

So noone knows where i can set maximum depth?

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by oscar19681

So noone knows where i can set maximum depth?

sim file. Max depth = Crash depth.

The number assigned to the crash depth variable is not a straight 1 to 1 meter number.

Crash depth = desired collapse depth in meters * 1.3 or 1.4 (I forget which)

edit:
And unless it's changed, either in vanilla or by mod, max depth charge depth will still be 300 meters. It was 300 meters in Sh3. It is 300 meters in SH4, so its a safe bet its still 300 meters in SH5.

[Vanilla]

Originally Posted by Karle94

I think it was in SHV that I saw a quote saying that the Type 7 was capable of going 100 meters deeper than the max depth of the standard British depth charge.

That is correct. It was also said that in SH5 there is no limit to the DCs depth even in the beginning of the war. And that is good, since if you know that they are not going to get you below 90m (early DCs had this limit) - it will be almost a cheat.

[oscar19681]

So basicly i,m gonna make it to the end of my career in sh-5 as long as i stay at below 150 meters , and the Destoyers will keep throwing DC,s that never explode below 100 meters even in the late war years? Well that will make the Dc attacks extremely boring then. I,ve never even got any damage from DC,s when i was below 150 meters.

[oscar19681]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

sim file. Max depth = Crash depth.

The number assigned to the crash depth variable is not a straight 1 to 1 meter number.

Crash depth = desired collapse depth in meters * 1.3 or 1.4 (I forget which)

edit:
And unless it's changed, either in vanilla or by mod, max depth charge depth will still be 300 meters. It was 300 meters in Sh3. It is 300 meters in SH4, so its a safe bet its still 300 meters in SH5.

I asume you mean editing the sim in the goblin editor? Well there is no value for max depth as far as i can see.

[Vanilla]

Originally Posted by oscar19681

So basicly i,m gonna make it to the end of my career in sh-5 as long as i stay at below 150 meters , and the Destoyers will keep throwing DC,s that never explode below 100 meters even in the late war years? Well that will make the Dc attacks extremely boring then. I,ve never even got any damage from DC,s when i was below 150 meters.

I am not sure. In the thread I've given the link it is the other way round - people complaining that there is no limit on DCs depth that go to deep in the first years of the war. If it is the opposite and what you say is true - then we really have a problem.

[oscar19681]

Indeed !! Well maybe after 1941 this changes?

[Dignan]

I can confirm that they do go deeper than 100 meters. I am currently in quite a pickle. Attacked a convoy and now have about six DDs overhead. I went to about 115 and heard DC exploding but they didn't seem close. Then I went to 130 and thought I would be invincible here (had this thread in mind) but low and behold, a couple of those buggers exploded close enough to shake my sub and cause flooding in the engine room. I'd say they can go below 100

I'm using IRAI and it's Dec 1939.