Escort depth charge expenditure permanent or not?

goobledeygook · 06-09-20, 01:04 PM

The answer I was seeking relates to this type of situation:

1. I attack a convoy defended by a single escort.
2. Single escort damages my sub with depth charges but I notice
escort eventually uses all it's depth charges and can only make repeated dry attack runs over my boat without dropping more charges. So, I know escort is no longer a threat as far as depth charges are concerned.
3. Escort eventually gives up and hurries back to convoy.
4. I surface and repair the damage and load external torpedoes.

Now, if I choose to navigate to attack same convoy again hours
later after initial battle, will that sole escort still be
out of depth charges or do the depth charges re-spawn somehow
during interval of time between first and second combat?

And just for the hell of it, outside the game and within the
real world, were escorts historically able to replenish depth charges
while at sea and guarding a convoy? Maybe that ability depended
on daylight and weather/sea state?

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06-09-20, 01:04 PM	#5
goobledeygook Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 14 Downloads: 80 Uploads: 0	The answer I was seeking relates to this type of situation: 1. I attack a convoy defended by a single escort. 2. Single escort damages my sub with depth charges but I notice escort eventually uses all it's depth charges and can only make repeated dry attack runs over my boat without dropping more charges. So, I know escort is no longer a threat as far as depth charges are concerned. 3. Escort eventually gives up and hurries back to convoy. 4. I surface and repair the damage and load external torpedoes. Now, if I choose to navigate to attack same convoy again hours later after initial battle, will that sole escort still be out of depth charges or do the depth charges re-spawn somehow during interval of time between first and second combat? And just for the hell of it, outside the game and within the real world, were escorts historically able to replenish depth charges while at sea and guarding a convoy? Maybe that ability depended on daylight and weather/sea state?