[Armistead]

And don't always think you can outrun them. Most the time they do attack from the rear and drop dead on you, that's why you can outrun them, but vet escorts do seem to time much better dropping them in front of you. I don't think any mod uses the elite crew rating, but I edited many to be elite and they attack from angles and often get way ahead of you, even had them make run in pairs. Just watch the Type A-D's escorts, they carry 6 Y guns and rolloffs and drop about 24 charges per run, so can be hard to outrun unless you're really deep. I don't make a hard turn when they drop, because often it puts you in the path of a Y gun charge, prefer a S turn of sorts, hard one way for about 5 seconds, then the other way for the same, then s8, it seems to put you between rolloffs and y gun charges. The Matsu is also a pain. Honestly, most the DD's in the game are pushovers, it's the DE's... You want a fight, go against 6 Type A's in 300 ft of water, charges sound like machine gun fire.

Research threads on evading escorts. They're numerous tactics to win against the meanest groups, but sometimes it's fun to cut those cams off and go in and see if you can live..