Reasoning as to why playable escorts are needed.

Fidd · 04-12-24, 01:08 AM

That would be one approach, however, we know from current play, that as the detection-range is known, literally to the meter, that this allows u-boats to attack a convoy with complete impunity if the escorts do not move outwards from their base track. It follows from that that playable escorts would be a complete waste of time and effort, if the convoy commander is not able to send at least some of his escorts out wide to expand the area in which surfaced u-boats cannot operate. Conversely, because of the time/forseeable uboat actions problem laid out above, there do need to be some fairly robust protections to prevent those problems. We need BOTH some escorts occasionally moving out to catch the unwary, AND mechanisms to ensure this can't be done both sides and ahead of the convoy at launch plus 15 minutes, which would likely render most u-boats detected of forced-down every single play session!

04-12-24, 01:08 AM	#6
Fidd XO Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Blighty! Posts: 432 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	That would be one approach, however, we know from current play, that as the detection-range is known, literally to the meter, that this allows u-boats to attack a convoy with complete impunity if the escorts do not move outwards from their base track. It follows from that that playable escorts would be a complete waste of time and effort, if the convoy commander is not able to send at least some of his escorts out wide to expand the area in which surfaced u-boats cannot operate. Conversely, because of the time/forseeable uboat actions problem laid out above, there do need to be some fairly robust protections to prevent those problems. We need BOTH some escorts occasionally moving out to catch the unwary, AND mechanisms to ensure this can't be done both sides and ahead of the convoy at launch plus 15 minutes, which would likely render most u-boats detected of forced-down every single play session!