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At least til mid 43 merchants were ignored by sub command.
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Interesting. Was that official policy? If so we might be able to reduce the renown points (or make them negative) for sinking merchants before that time. |
Forlorn's statement is incorrect, official policy from dec. 7 1941 was to sink anything that had a japanese flag on it, warship or merchantman. |
That is true. Guys were trained for battles vs battleships only, and there was no concrete doctrine to get actually the most important stuff on that area - supporting merchants - every Navy was pressing for a "final" battle and tried to damage the other Navy. So basically by orders I am wrong - but by what was actually done I am right. |
I just dont want Beery to go off on a tangent, a ship was a ship and a skipper who sank a merchantman got as much credit as one who sank a warship, it's the ones who came home without a catch which were given a desk job. Right from the start, PH was sending patrols off of Japan and other areas of the pacific to snag merchant traffic.
One mod which would be correct would be to end the career of a player who sinks no ship in two consecutive patrols prior to summer 1944, since that was more or less official practice.
Forlorn is right that due to circumstances, many fleet subs were assigned to indirectly support military operations and attack warships and troop/supply convoys (ie SE Asia in 41-42 and around guadalcanal in 42-43). Its only in 43-44 that enough subs were available to regularly send alot of subs to the prime fishing grounds around Japan and Formosa.