Anyone else use this convoy tactic?

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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

just remember, you can sink all the warships you want... they will be replaced by months end and your up against the largest navys in the world.

the real goal is to put rifles, ammo, shells, oil, food, trucks, tanks, guns, machine parts, tools, fuel and the like at the bottom of the ocean where the allies cant use them and the only way to do that is to sink merchants.

Strategically you could make the argument that it might make sense for Doenitz to
have his boys focus on killing escorts for say a year, then ravage the escort-poor
convoys after that. The Germans made the same mistake in the air in 1943-44 by
pretty much ignoring Allied escorts and beelining straight for the bombers.