[Mister_M]

Originally Posted by Fifi

Was fed up with the fact we always can escape depth charges diving at 200m in straight line staying unpunished
Now we will still be able, but at some costs … and keeping this depth for too long or a bit deeper should result in bad damages
If we want to keep 100% hull rate, and all our gauges intact (without some flooding) we’ll have to stay above the depth gauge red line!
Once starting to get damages below red line (with Commander random crash depth option activated can be any depth below red line) you couldn’t stay forever at this depth … meaning the more you stay the more you’ll have damages! (Hull percentage will slowly decrease at first then accelerate when loosing more and more percentage) hence you’ll have to recover a better depth (in the yellow line) to stay underwater no more damaged (the more damages you took, the higher you will have to recover to stay safe again)

Something which is not simulated in SH3 is that the british depth charges didn't "work" deeper than 600 feet (183 m). In practice, some german commanders went to 800 (244 m) or even 850 (259 m) feet to avoid DC...

... according to this video (at 13:53) :



So, a way to simulate this is to limit the ASDIC range to 183 m, but this is historically wrong...