Adequate Protection?

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Originally Posted by ryanglavin

I was patrolling on my good career, who has had 700K tons under his belt with 90% realism after 21 patrols, and my last patrol, I encountered the HMS Prince of Wales. It was being escorted across the atlantic by 3 ships. was this realistic?

It might have been. Early in the war, the destroyer shortage was so bad that the "Rodney" sailed with no escort. I think other battleships did the same.

Also, during the Norwegian campaign several valuable British carriers including "Ark Royal", "Glorious", and "Furious" sailed with either no destroyers or not enough - this led to the "HMS Glorious" disaster on June 8, 1940. Personally, I think the British were very lucky that only "Glorious" was destroyed - these ships made MULTIPLE runs with poor escort.