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Originally Posted by predavolk
I don't know if the mission requires you to take out the destroyer, but most of the senior captains here avoid escorts rather than shoot them. Using electric torps, or deep-running steams, will help you avoid detection longer too.
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No it doesn't specifically, although there is a stated mission objective to destroy all the ships. Not sure if that includes the escorts though.
The hints sheet which is displayed before you enter the mission, says that your priority should be to attack the merchantment, avoiding the escorts as far as possible. Sound advice for tackling convoys with multiple escorts and represents what most often happened in real life.
However,it is only a training mission (a good one though,which stands replaying) and a newcomer to the game may just wish to get through it quickly and successfully. Hence my hints earlier on the thread.
First time I played it, I got the famous bug where I got spotted by the trawler and the Hunt. They both opened fire on each other. The trawler went down and the Hunt was so badly damaged it could hardly move. Not much of a challenge there. Second time around I played it straight and it took hours! It was fascinating to see the escorts probing with their searchlights to see where my sub was.
Your advice is much more likely than mine to help Paulverisor have a longish and successful career. However, if if he comes across a convoy with the same makeup as the training mission, I don't think he would be in too much danger if he whacked the escorts first!!
