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Originally Posted by CptLoonee
They sure make short work of destroyers in game, especially if you catch them by surprise, at night, decks awash. You can often take out two escorts before they even find you, then it's easy to make short work out of the convoy itself. Though, as Steal noted, the sonar and radar cross section is huge. It seems pretty difficult to lie in wait of wary escorts, though I have gotten pretty decent at sitting on a parallel track (offering a narrow profile), and bending 6 torps (4 forward and 2 aft) in like Beckham  (manual targeting of course). |
Depends on your mod setup. I use TMO and Travs mod along with my tweaks for a realistic game, wouldn't think of taking on a DD on the surface. Really depends on the visual values, with stock and some mods the enemy can't see you worth a dern, so you can blast them and they never respond.