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lwallace0048 · 03-29-06, 10:27 AM

Follow up question concerning the Destroyer AI. I ran into a convoy last night, just east of my patrol grid. When I intercepted the convoy, it consisted of 18 - 20 merchant vessels, 2 Black Swan Frigates, and a Light Cruiser (which was steaming in the merchant columns, not on escort duty). On my first pass through, I was able to torpedo and cripple the Light Cruiser and 2 Large Merchants. Naturally the escorts came looking for me and after my first three patrols through the Channel I was expecting a long night of dodging depth charges. The convoy escorts could not find me (at one point one of them steams by in front of my periscope about 40 meters ahead of the sub) and the few DC's they dropped
were not anywhere near me.

Is there a different set of values used for convoy escort AI as opposed to independent units? IMO the AI used in the convoy escort was pretty much what I expected for the first several months of the war, at least based on what I have read. I fully expect the convoy escorts to get very good as time goes on. The surprise was how brutally effective the independent patrol vessels in the Channel were.

I was able to sink the Light Cruiser and the 2 Large Cargo's at a cost of 3 torpedoes each and a total of about 4 hours of game time from the start of the attack to the point where I was able to double back and pick off the 2 merchants that I had disabled earlier. I might have been able to use less ordance, but did not want to chance losing contact with the stragglers

I received credit in the log for all the victims.

03-29-06, 10:27 AM	#10
lwallace0048 Nub Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Follow up question concerning the Destroyer AI. I ran into a convoy last night, just east of my patrol grid. When I intercepted the convoy, it consisted of 18 - 20 merchant vessels, 2 Black Swan Frigates, and a Light Cruiser (which was steaming in the merchant columns, not on escort duty). On my first pass through, I was able to torpedo and cripple the Light Cruiser and 2 Large Merchants. Naturally the escorts came looking for me and after my first three patrols through the Channel I was expecting a long night of dodging depth charges. The convoy escorts could not find me (at one point one of them steams by in front of my periscope about 40 meters ahead of the sub) and the few DC's they dropped were not anywhere near me. Is there a different set of values used for convoy escort AI as opposed to independent units? IMO the AI used in the convoy escort was pretty much what I expected for the first several months of the war, at least based on what I have read. I fully expect the convoy escorts to get very good as time goes on. The surprise was how brutally effective the independent patrol vessels in the Channel were. I was able to sink the Light Cruiser and the 2 Large Cargo's at a cost of 3 torpedoes each and a total of about 4 hours of game time from the start of the attack to the point where I was able to double back and pick off the 2 merchants that I had disabled earlier. I might have been able to use less ordance, but did not want to chance losing contact with the stragglers I received credit in the log for all the victims.