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Originally Posted by Dread Knot
I've always felt TMO does a good job of recreating the hesitancy and fear which gripped US sub skippers in the opening phases of the war. US submarine policy actually advocated only making attacks by sound as it was felt ASW measures would doom a sub attacking from periscope depth let alone the surface.
However, I don't' know how realistic it would be in the latter stages of the war. Could one conduct a Red Ramage like rampage through an enemy convoy at night on the surface in TMO?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawson_P._Ramage
I've yet to recreate that sort of success. |
I had no clue that they told them to attack via sound only. They really didn't think they would get a ton of hits right?