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Kielhauler1961 · 10-26-14, 09:14 AM

I was recently depth-charged by a V&W class DD on the outbreak of war during my first encounter with a southbound outgoing convoy.

I have a clicker-counter and after three hours of bombardment it showed 73 explosions. There may have been a few more I missed.

The DD then made three or four more dummy runs without dropping anything more harmful than bad language before steaming off back to the convoy. I gave him time to disappear and then chased after the convoy.

Several hours later I was once more ahead of the same convoy and after my first attack the DD came at me again (he was the sole escort). No DC's were dropped in two runs so I guess he was out. I proceeded to sink him and then massacred the convoy.

The early war DD's will have fewer than the mid and later war ones and those converted to LR escorts will have a good supply, although a lot depends on whether the AI deems the DD has been in action earlier.

I haven't found any hard and fast evidence of the maximum load-out of each class of DD but a total of 70-80 for an early-war V&W seems about right to me.

10-26-14, 09:14 AM	#4
Kielhauler1961 中国水兵 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: East of the Firth of Forth Posts: 273 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	I was recently depth-charged by a V&W class DD on the outbreak of war during my first encounter with a southbound outgoing convoy. I have a clicker-counter and after three hours of bombardment it showed 73 explosions. There may have been a few more I missed. The DD then made three or four more dummy runs without dropping anything more harmful than bad language before steaming off back to the convoy. I gave him time to disappear and then chased after the convoy. Several hours later I was once more ahead of the same convoy and after my first attack the DD came at me again (he was the sole escort). No DC's were dropped in two runs so I guess he was out. I proceeded to sink him and then massacred the convoy. The early war DD's will have fewer than the mid and later war ones and those converted to LR escorts will have a good supply, although a lot depends on whether the AI deems the DD has been in action earlier. I haven't found any hard and fast evidence of the maximum load-out of each class of DD but a total of 70-80 for an early-war V&W seems about right to me.