Yes, they are occasionally there to deal with surface raiders, I encountered one, but the escorts had a line on me so we had to spend a lot of time 100 meters and rolling with the charges, and had to haul it out of that place.


I have sunk two Capital ships, one was theH.M.S. Ramillies, which I got with a sniper shot at 10,000 meters as i was in the right place at the right time as I was run over by a task force at night in a storm. (I had lucked out and had a four shot type I loaded up.). And last night I sunk the hood after sneaking into port, but didn't make it out.

Now the hood has gotten away a half dozen times from my captains, so it was very therapeutic to get a clean four shot spread with four hits.

A good one
 

HMS Ramillies

http://imgur.com/S3TG4.jpg


:yep:

Bless her memory :salute:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ramillies_(07)

In real life she was a tough old bird who fought two world wars. :salute:

Ran into my first big convoy of the career on the rockall bank. It had the Nelson right in the center of it. Sank her with 3 torpedoes and no trouble from the corvette escorts. I waited near her as the convoy moved away and watched her sink from the periscope. Then I paused
The game and came back to a crash to desktop.

Have found another convoy with a Capitan ship in the middle, only this time, the only escorts present was the Capitan ship itself...

I ran into HMS Nelson in a similar way, closer to the Irish coast. I only had two torps left so I needed to make them count. Let the escorts pass me by, came back up to periscope in between the convoy columns and gave her both torps from just over 1000m. Didn't have the guts to watch the fireworks through the periscope though, as I dived straight after firing.
No external view for me, so no screenshots I'm afraid but it sounded great on the hydrophones. Mulitple explosions, so I must have hit a magazine.