Most escorts ever?

[Renesisfury]

I just ran into a TF in July of '44 off the Luzon Strait, it had 2 Furataka Heavy Cruisers and 1 Light Cruiser, that in itself is not big deal. It was the fact that the TF had over a dozen DD's as escorts! Is that normal at this stage of the war?

[Ducimus]

:hmm: Tater would probably know. He's well versed in that area. I just wonder if i could penetrate that escort screen. Im thinking i could, but i woudlnt have much of a window to shoot.

[Renesisfury]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

:hmm: Tater would probably know. He's well versed in that area. I just wonder if i could penetrate that escort screen. Im thinking i could, but i woudlnt have much of a window to shoot.

Well, I managed, I stuck one CA with 6 fish, thankfully 4 of them were duds of he really would have been screwed. He ended up sinking anyway, the other CA managed to turn before my stern tubes sent him down too, the first CA must have had 5 other explosions after the fish hit, just blew up like a fireworks stand.

[Snuffy]

When I started my career just recently with the 1.4 and TM xxx etc and ROW etc, I started out of Manilla and headed north to the Luzon straights.

On the way we bumped into a task force and followed it into the gulf on the western shore of Luzon ... big mistake.

There were two other task forces lost in the gulf ... so now I have 3 task forces by the tail and no less than 22 DDs lookin for my ass.

But some of the prizes were juicey ... Morgamis, and other large cruisers, and 1 BB don't think it was the yamato.

They churned up the water pretty good! I didn't get any good shots at any targets, I was more concerned about getting out of the gulf alive. I did.

[tater]

Sounds like stock to me. The Kido Butai didn't have 22 DDs OTW to Midway, lol.

[M. Sarsfield]

When I started my career just recently with the 1.4 and TM xxx etc and ROW etc, I started out of Manilla and headed north to the Luzon straights.

On the way we bumped into a task force and followed it into the gulf on the western shore of Luzon ... big mistake.

There were two other task forces lost in the gulf ... so now I have 3 task forces by the tail and no less than 22 DDs lookin for my ass.

But some of the prizes were juicey ... Morgamis, and other large cruisers, and 1 BB don't think it was the yamato.

They churned up the water pretty good! I didn't get any good shots at any targets, I was more concerned about getting out of the gulf alive. I did.

I ran into the inavsion force off of western Luzon in mid-Dec. 1941 with my Sargo class sub - I have the RSRDC mod installed. I ran into them at night and there were more cargo ships than I could count. I decided to run in on the surface and hit the last merchant on the right rear corner of the formation. Several escorts started to engage and I decided to submerge. When they got closer and I relaized that they were sub chasers, I went to the surface and dueled it out with my 3" deck gun. I managed to sink 4 sub chasers, but sustained 30% damage and was running low on ammo - rough seas caused a lot of misses. My initial thought was to pick off the rear escorts and then take out a merchant, but several more sub chasers and a mine layer decided to join the fun. I dove and slinked away without ever taking a DC attack. Two days later Manila fell.