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Originally Posted by Delareon
I always think shooting the Escorts and then shooting the whole convoy is a bit gamey. Never heard of a action like that in History. So i prefer to sneak into the Convoy, shoot and hide. The Periscope should only be used as short as possibleoid detection. Silent Running of course.
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Actually, BDU started ordering the boats to hit the escorts first in mid-late '41. This was to counter the effect the effectiveness of the escorts, as the u-boats were becoming unable to even get at the convoys.
Of course, BDU didnt realize that most of it was a combination of effective radar on the escorts, and that ULTRA (the Allied Enigma breaking project) was basically reading the operational commands in realtime, and warning and/or rerouting convoys around subs.