[Stealhead]

I agree on that they do show up in the log but you get nothing for them therefore a waste of ammo that you could actually use later.Though I don't battle aircraft either seeing as I can simply dive to avoid them.

The way I see it they are basically just eye candy and in real life no submarine would have wanted to brag about sinking life boats a device that lends 0% to the enemies war fighting or supply abilities.

I can see that in some bar "Yep on the last patrol there we USS Buttfish boys sank us 5 life boats and a life raft." the other sailor would say, "Well thats just dandy us USS Badassfish boys sank 14,000 tons of Jap merchants and left the life boats behind for the sea to take those bastards aren't even worth the ammo our skipper says."

I think they aren't worth the waste of ammo unlike the Sampans and fishing boats now those are worth the effort(too bad they are all Japanese in game in reality not all of them where enemy just regular people making a living and most flew no flags) and in TMO they sometimes have AA guns on them.If the game had the detail to possibly make there be a chance that the guys in the boats could do something then it would be a whole different story.

I would love to there be a random chance that they either attack your boat or attempt to surrender to you by showing some signal if they attacked you you'd still get nothing for sinking them(lets face its a damn over sized canoe you could rack up more kills at a summer camp) but if one showed the desire to surrender and you destroyed it anyway then lose some renown because they had intel you could have used but lost due to killing them.Of course that will never get modeled in so I just stick with letting the sea have them.