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PCs PGs
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 8:37 pm
by corbulo
Are PCs PGs any good at escorting convoys? What are you guys using them for? they dont have the endurance to make it all the way w/o bleeding fuel from the convoy, thus slowing it down.
Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 11:05 am
by Drongo
If your short of DD's, they're better than nothing. The biggest problem is their poor starting experience levels. Some of them are just extra targets for subs.
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 12:35 am
by Point Luck
They also draw enemy aircraft quite nicely. I send them out in single ship TF's in masse, they work just like chaf does with radar
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 2:53 am
by GulfXray
Originally posted by Point Luck
They also draw enemy aircraft quite nicely. I send them out in single ship TF's in masse, they work just like chaf does with radar
I can vouch for this tactic -- Point Luck is driving me crazy with those darn PCs.
Couple them with inaccurate spotting reports (FOW) and I end up chasing the wrong TF. Plus, my a/c strikes get split up and go after his multiple PC TFs vs. the nicer targets. Sure I sink them, but they waste my ammunition/bombs and add to pilot fatigue.
This is what makes me wish I had a way of prioritizing air strike targets.
It was pretty cool when a couple of them stumbled into my heavily escorted Air Combat TF :p :p