A kaleun's dream is to take out the escorts and then have a free hand to massacre the convoy.
So far, I've never been able to sink more than one escort. Once surprise is gone . . .
However . . .:hmm:
June 1941, GWX.
I've ran into a convoy NE of Madeira, bagged one large freighter and got the biggest shower of DCs. The bloody salvoes were incredible, about 12 DCs per pass. The following evening, attacked the convoy again. Sank two large freighters. And the escorts gave me another shaking.
The convoy is still a long way from safety. So I plan to have another go at it. This time I'm planning to hit only one good and sure target to provoke the escorts. Eventually they should run out of DCs. Hehe.
I'm getting to know the convoy well. So far, it yielded 38,000 tons.
Any bets in the officer's mess?