Destroyers

[JScones]

Originally Posted by trenken

Do you guys actually try to take on a Destroyer, or do you generally just try to sink merchants and avoid the destroyers? I just engaged my 1st destroyer (avoided them until now), I missed with 2 torps, and just decided to surface and lay into him with my deck gun. He took some serious damage but finally ended up ramming me and destroying the boat.

Never...Or more to the point, only if absolutely, positively, I-will-die-otherwise, necessary. I tend to listen to Uncle Karl and play the tonnage war. Destroyers tend to be too nasty for my liking. Although it is fun watching one trying to outrun a T5...