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Originally Posted by difool2
An interesting what-if involves Doenitz making escorts a high priority target, for like six months or a year or so, stripping convoys of a significant amount of their protection, THEN going to town on the merchants. Wouldn't it be better to sink more merchants in a smaller amount of time than to spread the same tonnage out over many months? Wonder if you could do this in the game-mod it so that you have Zaukonigs right from Sept. '39, sink every escort you encounter, and by '42 see 40 ship convoys shepherded by only 2-3 escorts (if I am reading the press release correctly).
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The only problem with the what-if is that I believe it depends on a greatly exaggerated degree of effectiveness regarding the T-5. 640 were fired in combat. Only 44 or 45 ships were sunk by it, depending on which sources you want to cite. Given that each boat was only alloted a few (meaning that you didn't fire them in a spread), that's not a ratio considered favorable enough to offset the Allied industrial output.