Glad to see I'm not alone bending BdU rules!
I know it isn't historically accurate, but I can't help it, the smug bastards! Racing for my last known location like nothing can touch them and force ME down? I wasted a couple silent approaches after letting fly at the merchants, because that destroyer coming straight at me was just too juicy a target...
I found a tactic that, bar a dud, works 99.9% of the time.

I probably waste half my loadout on escorts,but I discovered my tactic is just as feasible with a IX, so...yeah. Oh so worth the satisfaction, watching them sink like cockleshells, they really are frail things compared to a large merchant. Oh what is it going to be like when I get my hands on Zaunkönig T5s... There's gonna be lotsa Walker wannabes taking a swim, that is, until the day I slip and end up with the fishies myself.