The points are that the amount of ramming incidents are very low, most uboats were sunk by other means. If there are 4 destroyers within fire range, they would probably rely in putting shellts onto it, but if you encounter 4 destroyers in sh5, they will all ram into you immediately, ramming is a last resort, its not a primary weapon. I hope that you see the point I am making here. Even if they have 8 destroyers in a pack in sh5 and they could easily and quickly shell the sub, they will all ram it. Keep in mind that ramming is a sacrifice, if odds are overwhelming that they can shell the sub with certainty, they would not ram the uboat, they do that in sh5. There are no doubts that this works very differently in sh5 than it did during the war.
During the war they would not risk running towards a uboat forcing their own guns not being able to shoot it, they would stay in that perticular range and fire as close as possible. In Sh5 they will cross the gunfire range so they cant fire anymore, and try to catch the uboat no matter what. It just simply didn't work that way during the war. Statistics supports my claims, uboats have to come up some time, they cant stay below forever, and destroyers simply just shelled it, they didn't pick ramming as a primary weapon of choice. Statistics is inaccurate sure, but it doesn't lie, we have pretty good data on this.
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