Convoy kills - do you confirm them?

[Crimguy]

Yeah, but it seems that most skippers ended up with inflated stats for ships that appeared as though they were going down, but in fact made it to port. So my guess is that the skipper's confirmation was little more than a cursory examination. "Man, that tanker looks like a blow torch. NO way they're surviving that."

I finally (after 2 years!) finished Part I in Blair's series, and as a guess, out of every patrol, at least one of the ships thought sunk in fact did not go down.

Originally Posted by MarkShot

I suppose this should be a poll, but I've never made one before. So, for convoy attacks do you:

(1) Confirm kill - see the torpedo strike from the scope or bridge?

(2) Confirm kill - see the target sink?

(3) Confirm kill - simulate surfacing later and examining the debris field?

(4) Disengage/evade - immediately after the last tube is empty?

I ask, because conventional wisdom in these games has been that #4 lead to the greatest chance of survival. However, from the few sub documentaries/books I have read, confirming kills was important and done.

Thanks.

PS: It would be a first for a sub game to actually require confirming sinkings before crediting them.