Ordered to attack the escorts?!? - Page 2

Sniper297 · 01-22-13, 12:38 AM

USS Harder, Sam Dealey, heard scuttlebutt that the Japanese were running short of escorts and made it a point to sink destroyers whenever possible.

http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/h2/harder-i.htm

Not necessarily a "suicide mission", after all as soon as you sink a merchant in a convoy with 4 escorts you have 4 escorts hunting for you to rain depth charges on your head. Sink one of the destroyers instead now you have 3 escorts instead of 4 since the one you sank won't be bothering you anymore. What I often do is dive deep to find out where the layer is, then attack a destroyer with two fish, down the throat with three at the next one, then go to flank speed, kick out a decoy and dive below the layer before slowing down. Sink all the escorts first and you can surface to clobber all the unprotected merchant ships with the deck gun, wipe out the entire convoy.

ColonelSandersLite · 01-22-13, 01:15 AM

I've seen this before too. I've pretty much run some version of tmo since I quit stock.

01-22-13, 01:15 AM	#17
ColonelSandersLite Captain Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 481 Downloads: 74 Uploads: 3	I've seen this before too. I've pretty much run some version of tmo since I quit stock. __________________ My SH4 LP

01-22-13, 12:38 AM	#16
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	USS Harder, Sam Dealey, heard scuttlebutt that the Japanese were running short of escorts and made it a point to sink destroyers whenever possible. http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/h2/harder-i.htm Not necessarily a "suicide mission", after all as soon as you sink a merchant in a convoy with 4 escorts you have 4 escorts hunting for you to rain depth charges on your head. Sink one of the destroyers instead now you have 3 escorts instead of 4 since the one you sank won't be bothering you anymore. What I often do is dive deep to find out where the layer is, then attack a destroyer with two fish, down the throat with three at the next one, then go to flank speed, kick out a decoy and dive below the layer before slowing down. Sink all the escorts first and you can surface to clobber all the unprotected merchant ships with the deck gun, wipe out the entire convoy.