How To Kill A Convoy

[Rockin Robbins]

In TM 1.5 the deck guns of merchants bite hard. If you're attacking a convoy of merchies with your deck gun you're probably in big trouble there. Regardless, that should be an untenable tactic.

First of all, eliminating all those escorts just wasn't in the cards in R/L. Coordinated attacks by two or more escorts just about totally preclude retaliation. You're left with survival mode. So you have to be lucky enough not to run into a convoy protected by elites.

But TM1.5 has more realistic targets, too. You won't see many 15+ ship convoys, but a lot more groups of 1, 2 and 3 ships, both escorted and unescorted. Those that are escorted are often escorted by a gunboat or a single DD. This reflects tater's massaging of the unrealistic stock Japanese fleet setup.

Your situation would be quite rare in TM1.5. If you found it, you would be surprised how different it would turn out, I believe.