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Originally Posted by SandyCaesar
You took on a pair of destroyers with your deck gun?  And you won!? 
You crazy, crazy...I mean, corvettes, yeah, all the time, armed trawlers, yeah, but...but...even in vanilla, on low difficulties... 
You should receive an Iron Cross, a summons to the asylum, or both. |
I was fortunate in that the armed trawler and the 2 destroyers were arrayed in such a fashion that they could only come at me one at a time - I was in a stern chase with the convoy. My cousin came in and said 'wow, what an epic game, do something cool' so I went to flank speed and started firing. Was only for fun, I wanted to get it over and done with quickly so we could start watching the Stargate films. I expected to sink, but was pleasantly surprised when I survived with 10% hull integrity.
I like to raid Hartlepool, that's where I learned to fight with the deck gun against docked merchants and the escorts. It's rather easy to fight ships in there since you are close enough to be able to hit their gun turrets with relative ease. That and the AI likes to drive it's big ships into the harbour walls if you fight them there.
I really do hate Elco torpedo boats, they're too small to waste a torpedo and too fast and too low in the water to hit them with the deck gun. Out of sheer frustration I used my 20mm double-barreled flak gun and I was surprised when she sank.
However, I'm only playing on the default 27% realism, which I imagine would have something to do with my constant survival.