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Old 08-08-15, 02:42 PM   #5
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At the same time, I have also encountered convoys that operated with extreme discipline and refused to scatter even if it might have saved them.
I found a weakly guarded convoy. 3 escorts only. I sank the lead one and the starboard flanking one almost right away. The third I took out a few minutes later, and it was then that I thought I would see the ships start wheeling off in all directions, but that did not happen. Instead, they continued sailing in formation. With no escorts to attack me and merchants that were all unarmed, I surfaced (at night) right next to the convoy, like 1Km away, and just started picking off targets. When we were out of torpedoes, I just sailed up along side each British merchant I came to and holed them with the deck gun. I left all the American ships alone, and they left me alone (that part is unrealistic, but whatever), and I came away from that engagement with over 70,000 tons. Almost every single ship flying a British flag went to the bottom. I only stopped because I ran out of ammo. Broke off from contact and told BdU of our success. They said "return to base, you've earned it!"
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