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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Real life: Destroyer with four or five guns, fire control system, trained for surface warfare. Submarine with one gun, iron sights, no fire control, much less stable platform.
Game: It's a game. You can get away with all kinds of nonsense.
We used to have players doing a lot of posting about how they sank corvettes by surfacing behind them. Nicholas Monsarrat (The Cruel Sea) told a story of a U-boat that surfaced behind his corvette. The 40mm gun mounted aft took care of the boat's gun crew before they could even get the water plug out of the gun. The U-boat surrendered after that.
I try not to do things that wouldn't work in real life, no matter how easy the game makes it.
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additionally if the destroyer went ahead flank and rolled 3 or 4 depth charges off the rack with a shallow enough setting the u-boat would have probably suffered some pretty substantial damage