Par for the course if you're unlucky
enought to get good escorts. I've met several convoys lately where I had no choice but to do battle with the escorts because they were too wiley to be able to sneak by. Then the big risk is of taking damage or being killed if you're overmatched.
A surface battle with escorts is folly. Even a subchaser has two really good deck guns to your one. He can fire faster and more accurately than you can. It is possible to get lucky, but the odds are not in your favor.
Your best bet is a series of attacks during the night with torpedoes. Attack, do damage, lose 'em. End around, approach from a different angle, do it all over again until you wear 'em out. Sometimes they wear you out and you end up with not much to show for it.
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