[Olsin]

The minimal tonnage got from sinking a destroyer simply isn't worth it in my books. I'd rather save my eels for some juicy merchants.

Also attacking destroyers after 41 is a fools game..you might get away with it once, maybe even twice but sooner rather than later they'll get you.

Besides, later in the war destroyers are seldom alone and doing a smart move to get out of one destroyers sights usually ends up with you giving your position away to another.

So, for me i leave destroyers alone and if i'm attacking a convoy i'll fire the bow torps (and occasionally aft torps if i've managed to get in amongst the ships) at selected targets then immediately set depth for 160m, 5 degree turn into the convoy and speed at 2 knots running silent and wait for the impending hammering of depth charges.......from 42 onwards though most shots at convoy ships will be from 3 to 4 kilometers range simply because of the amount of escorts they usually have and i'll go slow back at the same time i'm dropping down to a comfortable depth. This method quite often fools the escorts and they won't even latch onto me although misses at range accounts for lesser tonnage. Once you've got the convoys heading you can always back away and set yourself up for another attack some hours later.