hmmm... i'd heard the opposite with the surface attacks...and tired it myself. Conditions must be perfect I guess.
Thanks for the Discovery Channel version of Hunter verse Prey. But I do recall that bait fish in a bait ball....once detected by predators....get wiped out pretty quickly, especially in the open ocean....hehe.
Sorry I wasn't clear on the first part.....I do know that reinforcements are in the game.............but only if they are close...aka...escorting the convoy... again i've attacked a convoy (early war) for three days straight....with no escorts to the rescue from out of nowhere/over the horizon (anyone seen different).... and I've never seen a convoy scatter (tho think I read somewhere that they do in the game). I guess the general ...send more patrols in the area or convoy reinforcement.... no matter how long you've lost contact (both of which happened IRL). The early war shortage of escorts was a problem obviously...convoys would be escorted in and out of port but would be abandoned to proceed on their own when they got a couple of days out of port (they thought initially that the Uboats range was limited...and a limited amount of escorts).....(side rant)..but the over compensating DC party later on is a bit unrealistic....as pretty much all of the escorts leave the convoy...minus one to pound your position...and a DD or three literally stops on the surface for long periods of times. I know they did the sneaky all stop sneaky on the surface thing...waiting for a uboat to think they are safe. But i'm sure that was the exception...not the rule. I guess I disagree with the time factor that SH5 uses for breaking contact as well......as it's too cut and dry and seemingly not dependent of other factors. I like randomness within the confines of historical realism/believability. Anyway...am I complaining enough? haha
One last comment..... I like the idea of raiding ships or taking them prize...by making them stop...search them etc. Obviously it would be dependent on where you intercepted the ship...etc. I know it happened during the early part of the war... but obviously exposed the Uboat to counterattack if their position was radioed before being able to disable the radio..... I've also heard about the few shots to disable the radio.....but i thought it was more of warning shots......for the ship not to radio in for fear of being sunk. I don't know how often this tactic happened or when it was abandoned during the war. unfortunately my reading of books 10 years ago on the battle of the Atlantic is fading from my memory.
Thanks for the link....I'll check it out.