Got my first battleship last night...

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by tenakha

i didn't knew it is possible to find a battleship escorting a merchant convoy

Early war was quite common to see a BB or at least a cruiser in a convoy
Apart from uboats there was a real fear of German surface raiders

After the loss of the Bismark the rest of the heavy Ge units sat parked in port for the most part so the threat was less

Apart from the Murmansk convoys where there was the ever present threat of the Tirpitz or remaining pocket BB's\Cruisers breaking out of the Fjords

While they stopped adding BB's to the actual convoy there was usually a covering TF not far away

As the Scharnhorst found out to her cost