Oh, I agree, I'd love to see a modern escort simulator. It might get boring, escorting several convoys and never getting a contact, then being assigned to stay with the convoy while other escorts go chase the sub. In fact most escorts only attacked one or two u-boats over the course of the war. On the other hand one of the problems I had with Destroyer Command was that it was accurate. Destroyers operate in groups and go where they're told. Any battle is going to involve being ordered to attack with the group, and that's all there is. Destroyers are never ordered to go alone deep into enemy territory and find and sink merchant ships, for obvious reasons.
The only thing an escort game would be good for is the multiplay, and I too would like very much to play something like that again.
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