Changing the subject to real life Japanese destroyers, most of the time they were a bit like the Germans on "Hogan's Heroes." They tended to be perfunctory in their attacks, gave up too quickly, assumed that the sub was destroyed when it was alive and well.
However, there were single groups of destroyers that seem to have been up close to the level of your beloved Limeys. (can you believe we've had some complaints that Trigger Maru destroyers are too viscious?) They've never played SH3/GWX to see what a REAL destroyer is all about.
I have spent time on the US Submarine Vets of World War II website for some years, as my wife's grandfather served aboard the Kraken, SS 370. I have been laboring under the generalization that Japanese destroyers were not even close to the killers British destroyers were. Maybe in some instances I was wrong. Check this out from the sub vets' web site
http://www.ussubvetsofworldwarii.org/:
REMEMBER THIS USS TRIGGER?
After attacking a convoy of 20 ships, with 25 escorts, on 23 March 1944, Trigger (Harlfinger) was attacked by six of the escorts for over 17 hours. When she surfaced, Trigger's forward torpedo room was flooded up to the deck plates, her hull air induction was flooded, bow planes, trim pump, and sonar gear and both radars were dead and her radio antennas grounded. After making repairs for the next four days, she rendezvoused with Tang, borrowed air compressor parts, and continued her patrol.
They are asking the crew if they remember this? How could they forget? Now that's equal to any survived pasting of a U-Boat in the Atlantic. I guess we are forced to say that not ALL Japanese destroyers were like those in SH4.
Tell you what though, load up Trigger Maru 1.5, go find Bungo Pete and let us know if his behavior fits your characterization. Hehehehehehehehe! Ducimus has already backed up his words for those who wish greater challenges. I think you qualify!
Let us know how you do. Mind you, I'm not attacking your skills. No GWXer is anything but excellent, or he quits GWX.
I'll grant that you're right about the non-elite destroyer crews in SH4, and that is a reflection of reality in the Pacific. They are still enough of a challenge in less than 200' of water though, where evasion tactics are marginal at best.