Can't really compare real life records with the tonnage one can get in the game. In the game on ealways gets the credit for a sinking, down to the correct class of ship whereas IRL it was a much more difficult process to claim credit. Combat flight simulations exhibit a similar characteristic.
About Japanese merchant convoys - afaik the Japs never realy favoured convoys until merchant sipping losses forced them to do so late in the war. Convoy duty & ASW duty I think was looked upon as an inferior assignment.
I suppose th eIJN perhaps had different concepts on how to prosecute ASW. Certainly they did not really adopt the tactics the Allies used such as hunter killer groups and to a certain extent escorted convoys.
From what I've read it's historically accurate to encounter lone ships in the early to mid-war years and merchant convoys, lightly escorted by Allied standards, later in the war.
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