This is by way of a bump. I cannot over-emphasise how much I'd enjoy playing wolf-pack in battles were all, or some, of various escorts are playable, with crew-positions for the Bridge, gunnery turrets or positions, Asdic, Helmsman etc. The game experience of being hunted after an attack, knowing that's it's a real human player trying to out-wit you would be utterly different to that of being briefly hunted by an AI ship.
We'd need the Corvettes obviously, but also a small range of destroyers, ideally with a "convoy commander" playable position who can cause the convoy to make course/speed changes and attach escorts to an Asdic hunt or detach them to take up positions around the convoy.
There's a tremendous amount of extra interest that could be added to the game in this way, from various usable weapons such as hedge-hogs, to use of star-shells, and actual human observation rather than simple range-driven visual ranges.
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