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Originally Posted by Ducimus
I prefer to generalize and say it did happen, but wasn't as common as 2 to 6 ship convoys.
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Which is entirely the problem. I don't want more big convoys than is realistic, but I've not seen any 2-6 ship convoys at all. RSRD just spams single ships clipping along at 10 knots, not even bothering to hug the coastlines or zigzag. I would personally *love* to have a large portion of my engagements be something like 2-8 merchants escorted by 0-4 escorts. That would be enough to make a certain amount of variety in your engagements.
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Originally Posted by Ducimus
JANAC sucks. Between the "United States Strategic Bombing Survey" and Joint Army Navy Assessment Committee, I get the impression there was some serious inter-service rivalry as to who has the bigger peen. If you read the bombing survey, you swear the interrogation officers were flyboys looking to puff out their chests, and any answer with "submarine" wasn't the answer they were looking for.
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Not really interested in debating the merits of that specific report, but every post war report I have ever seen, which should be taken seriously, regardless of the unit type over claimed their effectiveness and misidentified enemy units. I don't care if it's tanks, bomber gunners, submarines, fighter pilots, or grunts. The story is the same across the board regardless of branch of service or country. Granted some armed forces where worse than others, but still.
Again, I don't blame the people who made the claims, but rather that's just the nature of war. As an individual your situational awareness only extends so far, and is further hindered by the chaos of battle, and people are more inclined to believe that they had good effect on their desired target than not.