I'm seeing some people report aggressive escorts and many reporting laconic DDs.
I've seen both so far playing between 41 and 42 on my second patrol. I have found the China Sea heavily populated and aggressively patrolled.
What I would expect out of the history, theater, and time period that low value convoys would be poorly protected early in the war and large tankers or task forces would be more aggressively protected and more so as the war progressed.
This would all be modified by:
Quality of the convoy commander
Quality of the escort crews
Lighting and sea conditions
Stealth skill of the sub commander
Submarines while end-on to escorts at night were very hard to spot by escorts and even harder to judge the distance since they didn't have radar range finders. It would be hard to tell if the sub was coming or going at low speed.
It would take several ranging shots to find out.
More than one US sub commander in the real war were very effective at picking ships off while surfaced inside the convoy so this is historically correct. The confusion, destruction, plethora of props in the water and lack of torpedo wakes would confuse the enemy.
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