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Originally Posted by Gargamel
If you're attacking a convoy, and if it's possible, use the convoy itself to peel the escorts off you. let the ships run over you, the escorts won't be able to get at you.
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I have done this more than once, gone in on one of the front corners of the convoy... and then I take all my shots from as close in as possible and dive, adjusting my course so I am going right under the convoy but in the opposite direction. If it's a big convoy I can be plenty deep enough by the time the tail end of it passes over me, even if I drop to the minimum speed for silent running. Especially early in the war (which is as far as I've gotten) it seems like the escorts run their sweeps on the periphery of the formation, if they stay behind to continue searching I'm so deep by then that it's not a concern. I've done this several times and I don't think they ever made contact because they didn't stay around to keep looking, eventually they just took off after the convoy again.