You can outrun 'most' escorts. If you are attacking at night, flank speed away, keep your stern to the escort and in some weather they will lose you
Even though you can still see them. Try it it works!
Also if you want to try this. Do a night surface attack on a convoy. Once the torps hit, get out of your area, but stay close to see what happens. The escorts make a straight path to
Your last area you fired from. This works with steam, have not tried it with battery torps.
At the end of the day my tactic is to get out of the area as soon as possible. If you dive too deep and go slow, but are In the area you fired from, they will eventually find you. Especially if they get lucky and hit your boat causing repairs and noise. Hope this helps.
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