[2026.1] Torpedo Wake Detection

Torpedo Wake Detection In vanilla UBOAT, enemy crews react only to a torpedo hitting. A steam-driven G7a leaves a white wake hundreds of metres long, and a convoy will sail straight through it without a flicker. Tactically the G7a and the wakeless electric G7e are identical right up to the detonation. This mod closes that gap. Your choice of torpedo now has consequences. What happens now Lookouts spot the wake. Every running steam torpedo is scanned against the ships around it. Only ships whose course actually crosses the torpedo's track react - the rest learn about it through the alarm. They take time to react. Between the sighting, the report and the helm answering, 4-10 seconds pass. Facing an imminent hit the crew reacts faster, down to a 2 second floor - nobody dawdles with a torpedo closing. They comb the track. A threatened ship turns to run parallel to the torpedo's track, showing it the narrowest possible silhouette - the classic counter-manoeuvre. It turns the way that carries the hull clear of the track rather than across it, and having committed to that turn it sees it through. Against a fan, each ship dodges the torpedo nearest to itself. The convoy panics. The alarm goes out to the whole escort group: zigzagging, speed changes, battle stations. And then they come looking for you. An escort that has just had a torpedo run past it does not simply rejoin the convoy - it follows the track back and hunts along it. It knows a bearing, not your address, so the search starts about a kilometre wide. The escorts know where to look. A wake points back the way it came, so the search clue sent to the two nearest ASW escorts is your launch position - not your current one. Expect to be hunted even when you miss. The clue carries a deliberate error of up to about a kilometre; they get a direction, not your address. Anchored ships stay put. No steerage way, no dodge. They raise the alarm and take it. Electric torpedoes remain invisible. No wake, no detection, no change