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Originally Posted by razark
Doesn't that kind of back up his point that torpedoes fired by escorts against subs is a bit silly?
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The notion that escorts shouldn't/didn't/wouldn't fire torpedoes at subs is as unlikely as having a deck gun on board,
but don't use it against targets (air, enemy ships, land units) because the "hit" rate isn't accurate enough to make it worth your while. Tell that to the Navy when they bombarded Iwo Jima, some of the most intense bombardment in the Pacific, and look what they got.....nothing much to show for it but spent shell casings. But, that didn't stop them from doing it! If you got 'em, use 'em!
Since the Japanese outfitted many of their warships with torpedo firing weaponry, it's silly to think they wouldn't use it against ANY suitable target.
Unless your willing to play this game as if its historically accurate by removing 90% of the escorts from Japanese merchant protection and realize a typical Japanese "convoy" is made up of single or maybe a double ship "group", unprotected. Their found traveling all by their selves, in numbers that will take weeks of game time to find.....BORING!! You're still left with the same conclusion, and fact.........those few Destroyers you
do run into still had torpedoes in their arsenal, and there's no reason to believe they would refuse to use them when an enemy ship was detected and suitable to be fired upon. No matter what enemy unit it was?! Lets start making rational sense, rather than having personal preference come into defining historical accuracy.