What part of the war are you in? Are you using Trigger Maru? I hear Japanese escorts in Trigger Maru have Superman aboard. Sure seems like it sometimes.
If you're using Trigger Maru, remember that the mod is not to make the game more realistic, although it often does just that. Trigger Maru's prime directive is to make SH4 more challenging. You're not going to get any 100,000 ton cruises. 50,000 is kind of out of reach unless you find the right ships. Escorted convoys may be able to fight you off without you being able to make a single shot on the protected merchies.
It's sort of like a pitching duel in baseball. Or like a soccer (yuck!) game. To the uninitiated, these are just plain tedious. To those who have immersed themselves in the lore of the respective games, it's all exciting. I enjoy taking on the escorted convoy, knowing that my first approach often won't get me near the merchies.
I'm waiting for the escorts to detect me so I can group them all together on top of me. I'm hoping that one will peel off, shut down the engines and use their sound gear to vector in the others, because when they think they've got me, I'm coming up to peiscope depth set for point and shoot to send the sneaky one to Davy Jones' Locker with a single shot.
I've attacked at sundown so I can pull out, do another end around to the other side of the convoy, hoping the excorts are still bunched up on the side of the original attack, looking for me. Well, they're about to find me by tracing the explosions I'm about to make on their precious merchies!
I've made four separate attacks on the same convoy during a night, leaving nothing but a couple of escorts with nothing left to guard when the sun came up. The battle goes for hours and hours of real time, almost as long as the game time. Make a mistake and you're deadl Don't get greedy. Know when to hold 'em. Know when to fold 'em. And know when to run away, for you'll be doing all those things in the course of the night.
I wouldn't want it any other way.
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