Tides of War

I've played this mission for days. In my best attempt I sank both DD's, and two DE's, and had only 2 DE's left so I decided to try to sneak off since everyone in the previous thread said you only have to destroy the DD's anyway. First of all, silent running is crap. They were tied up with one of my ally subs and I moved to almost 3000 M away at 200 meters deep at 1/3 speed. As soon as they blew up my ally, they came straight for me and killed me with depth charges. NOT to my last known position, but directly over me even though I had been moving in a squiggled pattern silently for a LONG time. What is the objective of this stupid mission? How far away do you have to get for the "hit and run" to be succesfull? I've just tried everything with this and I'm pretty much about to never play this thing again. Which is too bad because its a good game. And whats the deal with the running silent? It seems to me I met the qualifications I've seen given elsewhere in this forum, but those DE's CLEARLY knew EXACTLY where I was, when they definitely should not have.

just try to work with your alys. you have to sink all of them to beat the mission or atlest most of them i forget. as far as running silent gois your right it is a bunch of crap. you can be at crush dept with the moters off and they will still find you with no troble at all. the best way to cheat them is to stay shalow untill the start canning then crash dive. they will set there cans to high and they will explode above you if you can get down fast enough. if i remembet right i beat the misson by sending my alys in as bate. they sunk a few americans then while the americans were busy sinking them i stayed at a distance and shot at them untile i got them all.

Alright this pretty much makes sense, even though the mission is "hit and run". Because even if you kill a few of them, you'll never get away with them chasing you since they are faster than you are when submerged, and if you try to surface you get torn apart by their deck guns within seconds. I guess I'll just have to try to kill EVERYTHING somehow.