So yes with the German cruisers, I may start using the hydro search ability over the AA consumable seeing that, enemy CV's are a little more scarce lately, I'm going up against more DD's, and since my AA at the moment is not as effective. The German ship can pick up torps and ships at roughly 1km more than the other ships, but what this means is that enemy DD's (In particular US and Russian) who are hiding in a smoke screen or on the other side of islands can be picked up farther out than what their torpedo range is (Except for the US DD's who have the 5.5 km torpedo, but it's still a.
Now of course, it's still not that impressive. The tier four Karlsruhe has better sonar than both the tier 6 Aoba and the tier 6 Cleveland. Yes.you see this right, 3.48 km torpedo acquisition and 4.98 km ship acquisition range. Both the Aoba and the Cleveland have the same stats on their hydro search abilities. This is my tier six Aoba with it's hydro search:Īs you can see, it's torpedo acquisition is 2.52kms and ship acquisition is 3.48kms.
So I did a little research and found something interesting: (Granted I am using two tier six cruisers as an example against my tier 4 German cruiser.) Now, I have used hydro search before in IJN and US ships and it didn't seem to be as effective and yet in my German tier four cruiser it was working very well. I was able to set up a torp shot and sunk him before he let off one salvo. Thinking, "What the hell, might as well use it to see if it will work," I switched on my hydro and sure enough, I picked up the enemy BB from the other side of the island coming in. Low on health, I hid behind an island so I can set up an ambush torp shot (though with only two torps to use on one side of the Karlsruhe, it might not help). Another example, it was myself and an IJN DD, who was on the other side of the map, left on my team against two BB's. I hit my hydro search and picked him up inside the smoke which lit him up for my whole team. One match I came upon an enemy destroyer who had already set off his smoke screen and his known position was not marked. I'm currently at tier four for the German cruiser line and this was the only one available to me and on several occasions it has not only helped, but saved my a$$ as well. In another topic, I read several users discuss the usefulness in the Hydro Search consumable.
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