By late war the special made escorts like the Type A, B C etc were more common and plentiful so they were around more and so many merchants were sank, they could afford to assign 8 escorts to two ships.I remember reading thunder below about Barb's last patrol, two medium merchants and one small with an Akizuki class DD(Terutsuki) and 5 smaller escorts for just 3 ships, not even large ones either.When in formosa straights if seas are calm and cant do night surface attack, I wait to attack until in deeper waters, if they wont reach before out of my area, do what they would do in RL if they couldnt get an attack, contact report bc in RL there were other subs who could get them.Team effort and all.Then again, I have attack as you did and got away with it, luck sometimes plays a part.
The one I plan to do if possilbe one I learn to use S3D is to make it so surface attacks are possible even on convoys with radar equipped escorts.Japanese radar was pretty inferior and subs could still make night surface attacks on convoys with radar.Tang comes to mind but others.I think their radars max range should be 5000 yards...respectable distance and not every escort should have radar either. Shallow waters, could attack on surface and only submerge if you have to.Sorry they got ya, better luck next time.Least you dont follow my rules, I get killed, Im dead, new career.
