Not Diving Deep To Escape Escorts

Simdude · 08-14-15, 09:36 PM

How often do other subsimmers dive deep? I've only got as far as Aug 40 (i've only been running SH3 for like 3 months or so), but it's been my experience so far that escorts don't seem to be able to detect me at periscope depth, as long as i'm silent running and at slow speed. For example, last night i single torpedoed a small merchant, and then quickly surfaced to finish him off with a half dozen cannon shots...all the while there was an enemy warship about 10-8 km away, at full steam in my direction. I quickly got back to periscope depth, silent running, ahead slow...the warship got within a kilometer of me but he just circled around my old position and i slowly got farther and farther away until he gave up after several minutes and continued on his original course...i never went any deeper than periscope depth. Same thing with a convoy i attacked the other night with at least 3 escorts, they just seemed to circle around the perimeter of the convoy with an occasional ping (guessing where the torpedoes were fired from maybe?), but they didn't even get close to my position and had no clue where i was...again, all at periscope depth. Is sonar not as effective for shallow boats (like airplanes flying low to avoid radar detection)?..because it seems to be working quite well for me so far.

08-14-15, 09:36 PM	#1
Simdude Swabbie Join Date: Jul 2015 Posts: 10 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Not Diving Deep To Escape Escorts How often do other subsimmers dive deep? I've only got as far as Aug 40 (i've only been running SH3 for like 3 months or so), but it's been my experience so far that escorts don't seem to be able to detect me at periscope depth, as long as i'm silent running and at slow speed. For example, last night i single torpedoed a small merchant, and then quickly surfaced to finish him off with a half dozen cannon shots...all the while there was an enemy warship about 10-8 km away, at full steam in my direction. I quickly got back to periscope depth, silent running, ahead slow...the warship got within a kilometer of me but he just circled around my old position and i slowly got farther and farther away until he gave up after several minutes and continued on his original course...i never went any deeper than periscope depth. Same thing with a convoy i attacked the other night with at least 3 escorts, they just seemed to circle around the perimeter of the convoy with an occasional ping (guessing where the torpedoes were fired from maybe?), but they didn't even get close to my position and had no clue where i was...again, all at periscope depth. Is sonar not as effective for shallow boats (like airplanes flying low to avoid radar detection)?..because it seems to be working quite well for me so far.