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Originally Posted by Hartmann
Remember that a u- boat is not a surface unit, despite the 88 gun and the AA weapons.
it could be used in case of emergency but the main weapon of the boat is stealth and stay below surface.  |
+1
The ONLY time I took one out was he made a direct b-line at me from 4k yards out..I managed to hit him with 3 shells but he kept coming and raked my boat with the "little gun on the bow" when he reached about 500 yards.
I jumped on my AA gun and commenced to light him up as I circled at flank speed...blew his bow gun off and then finally managed to put him out of commission.
Score: a few hundred ton gun boat sank, a u-boat that had to crawl home after loosing 40 something hull strength!!
A u-boat is a silent hunter (ooh where have I heard that from before) not a get on the surface and duke it out with a multi gun destroyer or a light fast gunboat [I gotta keep teaching my son that..he seems to want to slug it out with a destroyer and 99% of the time looses badly!]
War of attrition..it took them almost NO resources to build a gunboat...you sink 10 gunboats and they barely take notice..they sink ONE u-boat and they can slip thru a few more convoys with tens of thousands of tons of supplies and troops!