just remember...any sailor can be the BO of an FFy so if you have a sailor that needs lvling, he can get some exp pts.  

Also, the midship DC racks of an FFy can be made nation specific.   (I have switched those racks between IJN and USN many, many times .   Any sailor capable of handling DCs can use those racks.   An armament sailor, a special project sailor to name a few.


If you use the midship racks, you should have some bulge as you might have to drop with them facing slightly forward.   You will have to turn and OH away.    Also, when doing that,  turn your guns towards the area where the SS might surface if damaged enough.   

He will be mad as a hornet  and will be spitting torpedos at you.   Start firing back because its him or you.

Just don't be a fool and charge into the middle of the map where every BB can see you.   Your best tactic is to try to see where the enemy ss are advancing and try to intercept while keeping out of enemy range.


Good luck
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Well heres what i used in EU server: Brooklyn CL, two sets of gunners, PHH on all slots, sonar, scout and engineers, 0,2 belt armor, bulge as much i could before losing speed. This works great, but as you didn't get much xp for sinking SS, most of the time you would only get 1-2 SS per team and if the SS didnt die before you could find it, you get other people lining up for shot and lose some of that tiny bit of attack you would gotten. All in all wasnt that profitable to run for that small amount of gain, used it for fun and to give that "up yours" to SS drivers :D

Kita with PHH, Sonar, 0.2 belt and bulge fired on Gradual. I call it Sub Trolling.

Yes I do. A very good one in fact. 

BRAIN and EYE and FINGERS.  

Best ASW is CV or ECL, both with capped sonar (you see sub first), T or R (depends on configuration) with HH or PHH. 1 or 2 gunners (but recomended 2). BO on (E)CL, some light od SS bo (which dont need sailors), ONE eng rest rep tu full slot / displacement.

Armor must 0.2belt bulge to archve cruise speed 34 (you are as fast as submege sub).  On CV it depends on you if you put full displacement or not.

On CL is good to have scout with mine to some anoyning mine drop(you cen help BB or scout for your SS or sighting enemy SS).

Fight fire at gradual 1 or 2 at once, see whot sub is doing and fire next time, untill sub deth.

And try to be out of torpedo range.

OH use carefully, on surface ship include surface ss, sonar work only when OH is FULL and NOT USE. Submerged  and only submerged sub use sonar all times.

A this time this ASW have range sight advantage against sub.

Good ships US,UK ECL (great nuber R slots), IJN Kita (Nice number T slots). KM Emdem (but there is low usabel space for high leve sailors). MN also ECL. SN Svetlana.

ALL PCV-KM MN,RM have great numbers Rslots. If you use 7 pilots then setup is easy, 1BO(rep or lvl 100 clased 2nd planesman), 2gun,6fighter/bomber,1scout, 1sonar,1eng.

And if you want take some escort as a sonar decoy. (SS thing that you have sonar on it and try to kill it).

Get a dd that isnt too long, load it up with DCs, hh are secondary, put in a bit of bulge and go ss hunting. Get in nice and close to the ss and DC away, try to approach from the side and hump it if possible. Dont overheat and shoot in front of the ss or else ur screwed

An PFF(Y) with some displacement that could hold a crew would sell like hotcakes.

give it 3 support slots, let it have AA guns on R slots and Torps on front T and DC on rear...yeah baby.