[Akela]

...but I died with a renown of 1720! My highest yet so I'm pretty happy about that.

This time I died while attacking my first convoy. Well, stalking my first convoy anyway, I guess I'd have to have thrown a torpedo or two at them to technically be attacking. But, I did manage to sink one of the two destroyers that was prosecuting me, so take that Winston!

I might have survived this a little longer, but I'm still so new at the game I didn't realize I actually had to click on a damaged compartment to get my damage control crew working on it. By the time I realized my mistake it was too late to save the ship.

So I have two questions that can only be answered by experience I think. I spotted my convoy, at night, in the English Channel about 65 kms S.E. of Portland. It was headed S.W. at 8knts. They were about 8kms away from me and I could see 1 tribal class and 1 war ship named the HMS Rodnov (or something like that). I saw a bunch of little merchants and one large merchant.

So, my first dilema is what do I shoot at first? My instinct was to try and take out the two warships, since I had the element of surprise at the moment. If I could sink them I'd have all night to kill the cargo ships. Plus the big one was worth quite a few tons.

My other option was to line up single torp shots on the four largest merchants and run like hell from the destroyers later.

As it was I decided to "pace" them and close slightly by setting a course and speed that matched theirs, however in order to go 8kts at P-depth I had to crank it up to flank. Needless to say, that was a fatal error and even at 8.5 km the Tribal and a previously unnoticed J&K class heard me and jumped all over me.

Lastly, I suppose I could have just let them all go and try to find them later when they were in deeper water, but that didn't seem like the right choice to me at the time.

What would you have done?