Gathering of the Destroyer Clans

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Originally Posted by les green01

sounds pretty much real life then the ones park there was probly listening for you and guiding the others you can only hope the other boats got some licks on that convoy while you kept the escorts busy

Well, not really. With the original 6 escorts half of them were laying to listening and the 8 destroyers that peeled off from the task force towards the end really seemed like a game engine oddity. IRL protection of the convoy was an escort's primary mission. Now, one way you can accomplish that is by trying to destroy a U-boat once you've latched on to one, but you never hung around for a day and a half with ALL your escorts, leaving the convoy (and in this case 2 capital ships) unescorted and open to further predation. Escorts kept a U-boat down long enough for the convoy to escape, change course and would then haul off to rejoin before any U-boat(s) overwhelmed the escorts that were left. Hunter-killer groups were formed specifically for the task of hanging on to a U-boat until it was dead and were usually called in (if available) to take over from the escorts, but they are a separate task force in SH5 and none of these escorts belonged to one. Again, think it was a game engine weirdness but they got me! But yeah - just have to hope that while all 14 of them were gloating over my oil slick my virtual commrades were putting big holes in the convoy! Ha ha!!