Struggling with sinking the subs? I follow an attack procedure which, carefully executed, allows me to sink the subs in about 7 out of 10 times in the first attack run. Here is how I do it!
Getting Ready for the Attack
- Set speed to Full and always keep it there.
- Set TRR to 16 (check scale in the upper left). As we are always attacking the sub from the same angle and the speeds are constant, there’s no need to change the TRR.
- Set the DRT to the 100 yards range.
- Set Depth charges to shallow and tight pattern.
Closing in
- When your radar or sonar picks up a contact, head at the contact directly. If it’s radar contact, point the sonar with the narrow search pattern at it. You won’t need it right now, but you’ll have the sonar already properly set when the sub dives. You’ll be faster in picking it up.
- Fire with the guns at the sub to force it to dive asap. So you keep it away from the convoy as far as you can. The submerged speed of the sub is more than 4x slower than its surface speed.
- Approach the sub. Follow it on the DRT. This is where the attack run is controlled until the very final moments.
- When you are about 2000 yards away, deflect your course from the sub. For simplicity and aesthetics in the DRT, I usually choose 000°, 090°, 180° or 270°.
- Frequently check the depth settings at the bottom right of the TRR and adjust the depth charge settings if needed. 10sec: shallow, 30sec: medium and 50sec: deep
- Pass the sub and drive past it.
- Make sure you have enough room to maneuver for your destroyer. Do not close in from a high deflective angle on the direction path of the sub.
- Maneuver on the subs 6’o clock, as the attacking is always made from the sub’s stern. Use the DRT for rough maneuvering in 90° steps and then adjusting it finer to have a nice 6’o clock approach. You may need to practice several few times to learn how much room and time the destroyer needs to turn.
Final Attack Run
- Now you should be nicely behind the sub and close in fast. As soon as you are in the final approach within a few hundred yards, switch to the DSC projector and head directly at the sub. Align the bow with the sonar beam and keep it there.
- Most subs try to evade. If you see the sonar beam wandering off the bow in steps, add 15° rudder to the direction the sonar beam is turning. This usually keeps up nicely with the sub.
- When you loose sonar contact with the sub, keep rudder as is and wait for 5 seconds before firing the depth charges. Don’t fire too early as the sub is also moving.
Detect sub again and prepare 2nd run
- Allow 15 more seconds to pass and turn back into the direction where you came from for the attack. Also here, I usually choose the closest 90° increment.
- Immediately set the sonar to the wider search pattern and align it on the side of your destroyer where the sub is. Set the direction of the scanning so that it moves from your stern to your bow. In my screenshot of the DRT, I set course to south, set the sonar search from 000° to 180° on eastern side and have the beam search clockwise, starting at 000°. If the sub survives the first attack, it will certainly be caught again by the sonar.
- If the first attack wasn’t successful, start over.
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