2 good hits from an 88 kills an elco boat. I've tried. But... its better to not engage them as they have lethal cannons on their boats which a) kill your crew and b) put lots of bullet holes in your hull.

In my First GWX patrol a Elco took me out by itself I had flak guns and deck guns targeting it but my crew kept missing and then my crew all died because the hull was pierced all over the place.

I coulden stop laughing.

shoot him with an aa gun

Those Elco's are damn pesky, so I just take them out with my twin flak - no more Elco.

Overkill'r'us. One 10.5 deck gun shell works admirably.

Hheeheheheheh next elco I see will become the beginning of the brtish space program!

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Last Elco I engaged on the surface survived TWO direct hits from my 105.

Then I decided to dive and didn't make it more than ten meters down before everything flooded and we sank.

If you like Elcos head down Freetown way. The little beggars spawn like demons just north of the harbour as I learned before.

They do seem to exact a disproportionate amount of punishment on a u-boat. Not in terms of crew injuries which I can accept but the hull damage from machine gun fire seems a bit severe

You have to remember that a U-boats pressure hull was only about 20mm thick, and elcos and vospers and MTBs and MGB were armed with 20mm Olnikeron cannon and 50 cal machine guns, these guns would have no problem pentrating 20mm of steel...

Just get a Quad flak and blow the wee buggers out of the water... Muwhahah

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The 37mm twin is by far the most effective showstopper :arrgh!:

Smashed them with an 88 before. The single 20mm is good early war against them.

Channel is great in a storm, the one that gives you "Depth 10metres" messages lol!

I went right past a CnD and another destroyer while raiding Dover.

They didnt see me, storm was hellish.


Got to get that pic up...was hialrious, about twenty searchlights and allot of gunfire! A pesky elco crashing around doing very little.