Sampans... do you...

[Tally Ho]

...blow them out of the water, or not?

I'm quite new to this game, and have a dilemma. I shall be sent to an area to look for merchant shipping, spend hours dodging aircraft and sighting nary a vessel...

...except for those picturesque little sampans.

I want to shoot... I want to run them down and open fire just to get something, ANYthing on the logbooks. And they may be the only thing in the South China Sea more archaic than my own beloved pig boat. Still ...

They're utterly unarmed.
They aren't flying the Japanese flag.
They're frickin' SAILBOATS, for God's sake!

I just can't bring myself to turn my guns on them. Am I doing my country a disservice by letting them sail on by? Hey... some of them have good fish which Cookie buys off of them for a few packages of smokes! A nice tunny beats the hell outta whatever else he has in the galley after 30 days at sea.

So I'd like to know... will I ever get penalized for sinking them? Will I ever get penalized for NOT sinking them? Do my fellow skippers with more patrols under their belts turn a cold, appraising eye toward their fragile wooden hulls and blaze away? Or do you enjoy fresh fish for dinner as much as I do?

Regards,
Captain Tally