Neutrals in a Convoy - Page 3

Slateford-5 · 03-26-08, 08:20 AM

I'm in the middle of an enemy convoy, lining up 2 large merchants who are almost in line, one about 400 behind the other. I fire 2 torpedoes at each. So far so good. I dive.

The nearest merchant almost immediately goes down. 60 seconds later there is an explosion and cheering. Then another 60 seconds another explosion. The crew is cheering, but this doesn't quite seem right. Shortly afterwards, there are 3 sunk ship icons on the nav map, 2 red and 1 green. I escape the game and it is clear that in addition to sinking the two merchants, I have also hit and sunk a much smaller neutral (typical: I have fired 3 fish at a small merchant before and it sailed on...)

Replayed the attack, but checked the flags more closely: the merchants are British OK, but a small merchant gets in the way of one of the torpedoes and it's Norwegian (British merchant navy and Norway flags are not the easiest to distinguish at night). Exactly the same thing happens again. Now I am wondering: can you really class a merchant in the middle of an enemy convoy as "neutral"? More than a week previously, there was a message from BdU saying all ships were fair game except American: was that just for show?

Would I be penalised renown for the neutral?

Any thoughts welcome

03-26-08, 08:20 AM	#1
Slateford-5 Watch Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Posts: 30 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Neutrals in a Convoy I'm in the middle of an enemy convoy, lining up 2 large merchants who are almost in line, one about 400 behind the other. I fire 2 torpedoes at each. So far so good. I dive. The nearest merchant almost immediately goes down. 60 seconds later there is an explosion and cheering. Then another 60 seconds another explosion. The crew is cheering, but this doesn't quite seem right. Shortly afterwards, there are 3 sunk ship icons on the nav map, 2 red and 1 green. I escape the game and it is clear that in addition to sinking the two merchants, I have also hit and sunk a much smaller neutral (typical: I have fired 3 fish at a small merchant before and it sailed on...) Replayed the attack, but checked the flags more closely: the merchants are British OK, but a small merchant gets in the way of one of the torpedoes and it's Norwegian (British merchant navy and Norway flags are not the easiest to distinguish at night). Exactly the same thing happens again. Now I am wondering: can you really class a merchant in the middle of an enemy convoy as "neutral"? More than a week previously, there was a message from BdU saying all ships were fair game except American: was that just for show? Would I be penalised renown for the neutral? Any thoughts welcome