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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
'Twas meant to be a warning. Surface ships are made to float, and it takes quite a few holes to put one down. Your u-boat is designed to sink, and one small hole can ruin your whole day.
Gun duels are always a bad idea. Read through Uboat.net's attacks pages, and see how many u-boats were driven off by merchant gunners. If the prey had a gun, the subs ran and hid.
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They may have DIVED but ran away and hid? naw. Id liked to see a merchant gunner make a torpedo run and hide.
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