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Originally Posted by Julhelm
The Cold Waters AI employs hunter-killer tactics like this too. When several escorts are screening a convoy, it actually is realistic that only a single hunter-killer team are dispatched to attack your submarine, since the convoy still has to be screened from any other potential threats. Neither 'hunter' nor 'killer' need necessarily be escort ships: aircraft and helicopters can deliver depth charges and homing torpedoes on target data provided by a surface ship, and aircraft / helicopter may get a fix on you with sonobouys and call in an attack from a nearby surface ship, and the same rules apply in WW2.
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Yeah, that's what I think too; better that all the escorts don't come charging, leaving the rest of the convoy exposed.