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Originally Posted by TDK1044
Make a stealthy escape, but hit her with a couple of stern launched torps on the way out.
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Seems obvious. I'll grant that again you set up the situation incompletely, leaving too much unspecified for a real discussion here. Surface action against destroyers was suicide in R/L with not one success in that. Lots of failures though. With two lurking out there--you do the math! Can't plan on blowing him sky-high with anything as Realistic Sinking Mechanics makes that unlikely. Most tankers don't have cargo, and that is what blows in RSM.
I'd stay at periscope depth on the escape. For some reason this seems to make the destroyers easier to evade. In any event I follow Wahoo (Morton)'s example and retain the initiative by maintaining periscope depth as long as possible. It isn't as if you have any water here anyway....
No risk, no glory! But how much risk can you tolerate? That is the rub. Destroyers on the surface are invincible vs a sub deck gun in RL and it would be playing Quake, not Silent Hunter 4, to do it here.
So that's a no-vote from me, as the responses (in agreement with the setup) are insufficient.