Back when I first started playing the original Silent Hunter, I used to delight in 'Dogfighting' with destroyers. After all, I had 24 torpedoes and it was fun.
These days I play more seriously, and try to act as a real captain would. If I fire a torpedo at a destroyer and hit him, I've sunk 1500 tons of cheap replaceable warship. If I miss, and am lucky enough to survive, if I circle back and miss again I've now wasted two of my precious eels for nothing. Even if the second one puts him down it was a very expensive victory, considering those two torpedoes could have done away with anywhere from five to fifteen thousand tons of vital war supplies.
Going mano-a-mano with destroyers is a fool's game, in my opinion.
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