Should I ever attack a task force with 14 warships?

XenonSurf · 07-01-19, 08:56 PM

Apart their invisibility, submarines are not very well designed for defense. I have contacted a warship group with 2 capital ships, a Glourious-class CV carrier, and a cruiser, all other ships were escorts, 12 in total.
I was in very good firing position, 3000m away in perpendicular path of the carrier and plenty of time to wait for it to pass that point. I decided to attack at 1000m by going submerged into the group.

Long story short: I got the carrier, several escorts have collided with each other during their attack run, 9 escorts were left with me in the middle

I have resisted for 4 hours real-time, then I was finally depth-charged and died.

Normally I don't have so much time to spend playing in a row with SH5, is it safe to save the game and reload in the middle of such a fight?

How would you have handled this situation? Was it wise to attack at all with this big number of escorts? My calculation was: attacking at a bigger distance and trying to escape on surface would have wasted my torpedos, or they would have hit one of the external escorts, that's why I did break inside the TF's formidable escort shield.

Thanks,

07-01-19, 08:56 PM	#1
XenonSurf Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Germany, Italy Posts: 1,703 Downloads: 107 Uploads: 4	Should I ever attack a task force with 14 warships? Apart their invisibility, submarines are not very well designed for defense. I have contacted a warship group with 2 capital ships, a Glourious-class CV carrier, and a cruiser, all other ships were escorts, 12 in total. I was in very good firing position, 3000m away in perpendicular path of the carrier and plenty of time to wait for it to pass that point. I decided to attack at 1000m by going submerged into the group. Long story short: I got the carrier, several escorts have collided with each other during their attack run, 9 escorts were left with me in the middle I have resisted for 4 hours real-time, then I was finally depth-charged and died. Normally I don't have so much time to spend playing in a row with SH5, is it safe to save the game and reload in the middle of such a fight? How would you have handled this situation? Was it wise to attack at all with this big number of escorts? My calculation was: attacking at a bigger distance and trying to escape on surface would have wasted my torpedos, or they would have hit one of the external escorts, that's why I did break inside the TF's formidable escort shield. Thanks,