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Originally Posted by Cpt. Martin

My last career ended in `43 when an allied ship with what seemed like 8-10 rear/side ashcan dispensers and a slew of forward hedgehogs laid out such a murderous pattern that I was kaput in minutes once he locked on. His depth finding was uncanny (I was at ~230 meters and trying every trick in the book). His cohorts kind of backed off and let this ship free kick my private bits.

It went like this:
-Sink 2 high value, super large tonnage fat-girls from the Convoy *high- five!*
-A couple escorting corvettes try to zero me in, I evade successfully
-3 more corvettes slide in, as well as the bad mammer-jammer who comes along (ASDIC deafening ) and:

BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBO OM
BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBO OM
Me=

Anybody know what class she was? Her stack was raked aft and angled over towards the deck a the funnel and she flew a RN ensign. Any period pics? I've played a while and never encountered this gnarly Kraken previously. Must avoid these buggers...

What else is out there I should know about? The fury of a well coordinated HK group is jaw-dropping late `43.

(Off to research)

• If you have been playing into 1943, you should know your destroyers. In fact, if you have survived into 1943 more than a few times, you know your destroyers backward and forwards.
• You have the same Ship ID book the rest of us do...
• At 230 and being DCd, I don't think anyone argued about "It's a Tribal" "No, it's not, you stunned mullet, it's a County."
• And, if you are entering 1943 and are surprised by anything, you haven't been playing since 1939.