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Originally Posted by Morts
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Originally Posted by desirableroasted
3) In poor weather, I tend to let small merchants go... why pop a 2K passenger/cargo with two torps when one will wreck an 8K pyro?
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because your job as a uboat captain is to destroy enemy shipping
not waiting for bigger targets |
I do wrestle with that... IRL I should sink the first target that comes along. And, yet... using that logic, I should sink trawlers, fishing boats and sloops -- they are, after all, merchants -- with torpedoes, if the weather doesn't allow deck gunning.
I don't think many of us waste deck gun ammo, much less a torp, on a sloop.
So where do you draw the line?
I interpret my "job" as "sinking as much enemy supply shipping as possible given the boat, equipment, crew and fuel provided." That's why a 2K passenger/cargo is going to get a pass from me on a stormy night in the North Sea... it's not worth the torp.
Don't get me wrong. I don't "cherry pick" targets. But I expect a certain risk/reward ratio -- otherwise, I am just putting the boat at risk.