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Originally Posted by frau kaleun
No, they still count as neutral. You can sink them of course (and might by accident in a convoy attack) but any penalties the game dishes out for sinking neutral shipping will still apply.
In addition I'm pretty sure that if you attack a neutral ship, the country whose flag it flies under will consider you an enemy (even though they are not at war with Germany) and any and all of their forces will be hostile to you on sight for 24 hours of in-game time.
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You can actually get full credit for some MFM neutrals. If a ship has hull flags but is not flying a flag it can be sunk for full renown. If you can't see the flag staff, check for things like tanks/trucks/planes on deck. Or zigzagging when they sight you.
These ships were my way of representing the neutrals that illegally carried cargo to Britain. And the Allied ships that were re-registered to Ireland, Panama, etc because of the war. In real life sometimes re-registering worked; other times they got torpedoed anyway.