Tides of War

I?ve had the opportunity to volunteer onboard one of the DE Museum ships over the years and a few things struck me about the game.

First thing is that the Buckley Class in the game is listed as having 3 4? guns. In real life they were armed with 3"/50 Caliber DP guns. The 4? gun as I understand it was largely a British weapon dating back to WWI. The USN used them on some destroyers of World War I vintage but they were largely abandoned in favor of the 3?/50 or 5? guns for destroyers or DEs.

Second is that unless I?m missing it there seems to be no way to estimate the depth of subs with any accuracy. I know that the sonar systems and hydrophones of that time weren?t the most accurate systems. They didn?t even have any capability to estimate depth until 1943. That said crews were often able to estimate depth by the distance the sub was away when they lost it on sonar or hydrophones. When a sub was running deep they?d lose the sub sooner on sonar. In Enigma there doesn?t even seem to be any capability to estimate depth in even this rough manner.

good sugestion, i noticed that the game is not historicly accurite about several thing, nor is it perfect when it comes to sonar or hydrophones, but it is only a game.

Actually you can estimate sub depth, but it depends on several things: SPEED, RANGE and DEPTH

At a medium speed, at 2000M and 50M they sound similar to slow speed, 500M and 150m deep.

While we didn't provide a way to actually "listen" to the subs, the blip on the tactical screen will give you an idea how accurate it is by the "fuzzyness" of the shape.

Best way to learn this is to play the subs a bit.

the Buckley armament was taken from the first version of the Buckley and adapted a little for the models we already had. It's alternate history too!

Iwolf: While we didn't provide a way to actually "listen" to the subs, the blip on the tactical screen will give you an idea how accurate it is by the "fuzzyness" of the shape.

Does the fuzziness vary with depth though?