sub command absurdly difficult?
 

I am playing around with this game on Steam after putting it aside years ago. I am trying to get through the "Super escort" scenario where you are supposed to escort a supertanker moving at 16 knot through waters infested with 3 Kilo submarines, your approach to the hostiles is through water that is 45 feet deep in places, and you have about a 500 yard head start on the tanker.

I've tried everything I can think of to begin to have a prayer of deterring or preventing attack on the tanker. It's hopeless. The only chance I can see is if you have foreknowledge of exactly where the Kilos are going to be and fire off 3 snapshot torpedoes to throw them on the defensive. Even then, I don't know how to deal with their snapshot counterattacks, which arc on the tanker.

Has anyone actually won this scenario? Can you tell me how you did it?

finally won it
 

Step 1 - be stupid - go to flank at 50 feet, bang away on active, anything. Once you have the attention of the enemy subs, the supertanker will be safe.

..you, however will not be...

Step 2 - evade torpedoes in water so shallow you can't get going faster than about 15 knots.

I learned it *is* possible to evade torpedoes at 12 knots. Good to know.

The sim is not always realistic. Some default missions have a "game" perspective.

If you want realism, you better make your own missions and even then it is not a guarantee.
I also wonder how real crews do certain things in real life with some situations.

I mean, i like making big big missions, using the whole map. I do not know how crews cross the distance. Do they make short bursts of speed? I cannot imagine them doing 5 knots the whole way.

And how many times do they change course? I mean one has to clear their baffles.

Just to point something out, the last post prior to yours was over a year ago.

:-)
I know, but i thought "why not".
Sorry if i broke forum rules.

I cannot recall if there are any rules regarding necroposting, but it can be disruptive. I would consider it more of an FYI than anything else. Besides, I am not staff therefore I can make no real judgments.:)

I don't think it should be an issue in this particular board. I mean, you scroll down and there are threads from over a year ago on the first page :haha: I just wouldn't particularly expect a reply from any of the OPs, but who knows?