RSRD Comments

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by ColonelSandersLite

So you're saying that the Japanese generally didn't convoy and that there where so many single ship targets afloat it's easy to score 40,000 tons of merchants every time you go out with absolutely 0 risk? Doesn't sound right to me.

Where in the world would the 20% casualty rate amongst submariners come from then I wonder?

In short, yes, convoys were not the same type seen in the ATO. 2-5 ships. Some escorted. Some not. Later in the war the ships would hug the coast hoping the shallows would protect them. In some cases it did. Others not. The very large convoys did happen but certainly not like the ATO convoys. As for what Niki stated above. Bum torpedos, Japanese DC that went off to shallow as our submarines were much deeper until someone blabbed about it. As our torpedoes got better the sub dominated the Pacific. I thing RSRD is close as we will get to the real deal.