I'm on my 21st patrol and at this point I let the smaller ships pass unmolested. In my opinion, they're not worth the price of a fish. Anything else gets two fish aimed at the fuel bunker. Some, I'll admit, get a third... I figure one large merchant sunk with two fish yields more tonnage than a fish apiece into two smaller ships.
As far as my deck gun, I'm ready to ditch it. Those merchants are armed these days and some of their gun crews are pretty good! If I can hit them, they can probably hit me and a few have... One time I lost both periscopes and my radio antenna from a single shell fired from a distance of about 2500 Meters by a coastal merchant. I turned back for repairs and a severe reprimand.
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A kill is a kill.
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