Boss ! Ze plane ! Ze plane !

Scarredclown · 04-09-15, 06:33 PM

I'm having a bit of difficulty with the planes that keep on trying to sink me. Besides hiring the small guy in Fantasy Island who seemed to have a talent for spotting planes...

Right now my tactics is to go full ahead and crash dive. I rarely escape without damages. I try to fight them but its a bit risky. What experienced submariners like you do ?

Pigboatcook · 04-09-15, 06:56 PM

Me, I crash dive at flank and stay at flank until I am 200+ down, then I might give it a kick to the right or left a few degrees. I'm in the Pacific to sink ships, not aircraft. If it is a choice between my ship and crew and that aviator in the water all i can say is he better keep swimming until I can get back up.

TorpX · 04-09-15, 09:18 PM

If they have spotted you, or will spot you, crash dive.

Get down as fast as you can; don't play games.

Your mods may make for a higher or lower level of danger.

Donitz ordered the Kriegsmarine U-boats to stay up and fight aircraft. They shot down some planes that way. They also lost a lot of U-boats.

Shkval · 04-10-15, 03:43 AM

During the day, if under the umbrella, 3 hours submerged, 1/2 hour surfaced, in that way you will always have over 95% batteries and fresh air... combat ready all the time...

Warren Peace · 04-10-15, 05:25 AM

Air Search radar raised (it may not matter, but I swear I spot planes a lot sooner with it up), never above 512x time compression when within aircraft patrol ranges (which I consider to be about 1,700 NM from any Japanese occupied areas), and I ignore that I have AA weapons.

Haven't had a plane get the drop on me yet, they're typically several thousand yards out when I get a radar hit / lookout alert. Then, it's simply ahead flank, crash dive, hard to whichever-direction-feels-good-at-the-time. Don't bother fighting 'em, just RSLG (Run Screaming Like a Girl).

Crannogman · 04-10-15, 07:05 AM

I've found daytime cruising to be best at 55ft, just shallow enough to pick up the shortwave radio broadcast

04-09-15, 06:33 PM	#1
Scarredclown Loader Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Quebec Posts: 85 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	Boss ! Ze plane ! Ze plane ! I'm having a bit of difficulty with the planes that keep on trying to sink me. Besides hiring the small guy in Fantasy Island who seemed to have a talent for spotting planes... Right now my tactics is to go full ahead and crash dive. I rarely escape without damages. I try to fight them but its a bit risky. What experienced submariners like you do ? __________________ Sorry for my English, triyng very hard !

04-09-15, 09:18 PM	#3
TorpX Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 3,975 Downloads: 153 Uploads: 11	If they have spotted you, or will spot you, crash dive. Get down as fast as you can; don't play games. Your mods may make for a higher or lower level of danger. Donitz ordered the Kriegsmarine U-boats to stay up and fight aircraft. They shot down some planes that way. They also lost a lot of U-boats.

04-10-15, 03:43 AM	#4
Shkval Planesman Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 192 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	During the day, if under the umbrella, 3 hours submerged, 1/2 hour surfaced, in that way you will always have over 95% batteries and fresh air... combat ready all the time... __________________ Come closer... and die.

04-10-15, 05:25 AM	#5
Warren Peace Loader Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 89 Downloads: 44 Uploads: 0	Air Search radar raised (it may not matter, but I swear I spot planes a lot sooner with it up), never above 512x time compression when within aircraft patrol ranges (which I consider to be about 1,700 NM from any Japanese occupied areas), and I ignore that I have AA weapons. Haven't had a plane get the drop on me yet, they're typically several thousand yards out when I get a radar hit / lookout alert. Then, it's simply ahead flank, crash dive, hard to whichever-direction-feels-good-at-the-time. Don't bother fighting 'em, just RSLG (Run Screaming Like a Girl). __________________ The only sound that still scares me to this day... The silence when the pinging stops.

04-10-15, 07:05 AM	#6
Crannogman Watch Officer Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Kansas City, Missouri Posts: 343 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	I've found daytime cruising to be best at 55ft, just shallow enough to pick up the shortwave radio broadcast __________________ "The sea shall ride over her and she shall live in it like a duck" ~John Ericsson

04-09-15, 06:56 PM	#2
Pigboatcook A-ganger Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 74 Downloads: 21 Uploads: 0	Me, I crash dive at flank and stay at flank until I am 200+ down, then I might give it a kick to the right or left a few degrees. I'm in the Pacific to sink ships, not aircraft. If it is a choice between my ship and crew and that aviator in the water all i can say is he better keep swimming until I can get back up.