Neutral merchants in convoy

[joho]

Intercepted an outbound convoy, closed in to indentify targets, when to my supprise I spotted a Greek flag on the closest vessal. Its aug 1940 so if I am not misstaken they are still neutral, Italian invasion took place in october.What happens if I take the greek ship down, will I loose renown anyhow. I mean he is not lit up and in an enemy convoy.

[melnibonian]

SH3 does not care if the ship is inside the convoy or not. If you hit it you will suffer the penalty.

[Brag]

Yeah. These convoy hiding neutrals are a bother.

[Pablo]

Hi!

In Real Life any merchant ship that accepted escort from a belligerent warship (i.e., was in an Allied-escorted convoy) was a legitimate target under the Hague Convention; however, Silent Hunter III does not distinguish between escorted and non-escorted so you will suffer the "sank a neutral" renown penalty.

It just means you have to identify the nationality of any target before launching your torpedoes.

Pablo

[Samwolf]

I set the neutral setting in the basic/cfg to 1 and use self-discipline to not sink single neutrals, that gives me no penalty if they're in a convoy.:arrgh!:

[danurve]

I do the cfg edit myself, and leave singles alone.

But no mercy for neutrals in convoys. That is of course after the good targets are down.


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