The Shackleton had a radar just for spotting snorkelling submarines, and could carry torpedoes, mines, depth charges, & sonobouys.
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They would be a pain if there weren’t counterplay options. But as you point out, there are already some counterplay options in EC:
ASW planes (several in game already)
Destroyers and Frigates (low cost to spawn in EC)
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I would also like to bring up motor torpedo boats as they are fast and some have depth charge capability but would be rare to see. Also flat bottom boats would be immune to subs most devastating weapon the torpedo. Boats like the monitor Parnaíba if added in game would easily beat up a U-boat and IRL she was tasked with that mission because her draft was higher then the depth of the torpedoes. The U.S.A. ran into this issue in the pacific as well because the Japanese used a lot of flat bottom boats for transport but also sub hunting to degrees of usefulness. The cannons on U.S.A. subs where better suited to handling flat bottom boats then torpedoes at risk of air attack. IRL drone boats are making the idea of slapping a 30mm autocannon on a sub a solution to these low value but high risk targets.
In game WW2 subs with cannons might be more survivable because they can take on planes and torpedo boats in a 1v1 but post war subs like the GUPPYS can only run away and hope. Balancing is going to be difficult for the Gaijin but I hope we get lots of gimmicks to play with as its enjoyable to play and see people use strange tactics to win. Example of strange gimmick:
CE2F-X30 piggy back ridding Guppy III submarine, Katsonis
lifting off
Weapons: a limpet mines and possibly mini torpedoes. Some James Bond stuff.
http://www.hisutton.com/The%20famous%20CosMoS%20CE2F%20chariot.html
Yes & No, Later submarines can dive deeper, have better passive & active sonars, and better torps.
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This is the best ASW ship ever built
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Nothing on submarines unfortunately although in the thread smin does say that there is an upcoming Q&A with BVVD so perhaps we’ll hear more then.
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Yeah, I guess we’ll wait for BVVD’s q&a, though this certainly casts doubt on submarines arriving with the 4th major update
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where is this from or when was this posted?
Nevermind found the reddit post where it says that it is just a wishlist
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Update season is likely 2 weeks away but rumours are going to rumour.
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That’s some top schizophrenia right there, good laugh.
Can you post the link? I can’t find it.
cheers.
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Oh well, thank goodness I passed by here.
too good to be true
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I’ve spoken to my friend who sent me the image and he told me that this image mainly comes from Twitter from the guy who leaks things that come to the game, the last thing he leaked was the T58 among other vehicles that I remember two from the last list he leaked were not added to the game.
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Nice story. Why don’t you (they) back it up with a link or two?
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When I have the link I’ll pass it on as soon as possible, I don’t want to look like a liar, but I apologize for not covering that part :(
So, when subs eventually come. Think the research tree will change its format? Like instead of going from lighter ships to heavier, we’ll actually get columns of ship types?
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hi i am the friend i don’t found this tweet the onli two thinks i know is a asiatic accountn and the direct traduction say gaijing is working in this
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I reckon it’ll be a third tree like helicopters are.
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