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Originally Posted by CapnScurvy
The notion that escorts shouldn't/didn't/wouldn't fire torpedoes at subs is as unlikely as having a deck gun on board, but don't use it against targets (air, enemy ships, land units) because the "hit" rate isn't accurate enough to make it worth your while. Tell that to the Navy when they bombarded Iwo Jima, some of the most intense bombardment in the Pacific, and look what they got.....nothing much to show for it but spent shell casings. But, that didn't stop them from doing it! If you got 'em, use 'em!
Since the Japanese outfitted many of their warships with torpedo firing weaponry, it's silly to think they wouldn't use it against ANY suitable target.
Unless your willing to play this game as if its historically accurate by removing 90% of the escorts from Japanese merchant protection and realize a typical Japanese "convoy" is made up of single or maybe a double ship "group", unprotected. Their found traveling all by their selves, in numbers that will take weeks of game time to find.....BORING!! You're still left with the same conclusion, and fact.........those few Destroyers you do run into still had torpedoes in their arsenal, and there's no reason to believe they would refuse to use them when an enemy ship was detected and suitable to be fired upon. No matter what enemy unit it was?! Lets start making rational sense, rather than having personal preference come into defining historical accuracy.
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First of all, the ineffectiveness wasn't from lack of accuracy. It was do to the lack of clear targets. The Japanese had camouflaged their positions to the point that they were extremely hard to spot. When they were spotted the accuracy was there. Those positions didn't survive. Second of all, the Japanese had almost indestructible defenses on most of those islands with multiple entrance and exit tunnels so that you could reinforce at will and or reoccupy those positions even after all the original occupants had been killed and the fortification cleared. The ineffectiveness from the bombardment wasn't really due to accuracy but the hardiness of the positions themselves.
And Capn Scurvy you keep talking as if the Japanese escorts actually did fire torpedo's at our subs. Then please, enlighten me as when this happened. Send me a link or the name of a book or article that describes this and I would like to read it.