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Harrybanana -> RE: BoA (2/15/2021 6:26:50 AM)
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ORIGINAL: MorningDew
Next turn, same result. Zero damage to Uboats. My escorts whoever are taking losses regularly.
Trying to understand if this is WAD and to be expected, it is WAD and I am doing something wrong, or something is wrong.
This is with the most recent beta BTW.
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My 2 observations about the BOA:
1. There is a lot of luck involved. In most games the U-boats (mine or my opponents) will for several turns in a row sink large numbers of MS and escorts every turn. Then for several turns in a row they will sink vey few MS and escorts while taking hits themselves. Then it will switch back again. So the luck seems to go back and forth until finally (usually in 42 or 43) the escorts seem to consistently score more U-Boat hits then they lose MS and escorts. But in a minority of games it seems like either the U-Boats are having happy hunting from the beginning until the end, or else they do terrible right from the get go.
2.The number of escorts has absolutely no effect on how many MS get sunk. So the job of escorts is not to "protect" the convoys in the sense of reducing the number of MS sunk. The sole job of the escorts is to get more hits on the U-Boats than escort sunk. This is very difficult to do until tech level 43 is reached. It is impossible to do unless you always use the maximum number of escorts. So if I only have say 14 escorts I would not put 7 in each of the North Atlantic and South Atlantic because the odds of my 7 escorts sinking more U-Boats than escorts lost is not good. So I am just going to lose in both zones. Instead I will put 14 in one convoy zone and put 0 in the other. This increases my chances of getting hits on the U-Boats in one of the convoy zones while making sure I am not outnumbered in any zone. It is especially useful to put extra (ie more than 10) escorts in a convoy zone where I know my opponent will get 2 attacks because there are 2 convoys operating. This way I will get 2 chances at maximum effectiveness and if I lose some escorts in the first attack I will still have 10 for the 2nd attack.
So applying what I said to your screenshot, I would say that your opponent only sinking 5 MS with 2 attacks of 3 subs is actually pretty poor shooting by him. I think an "average" turn is if the U-Boats sink 1.33 MS per U-Boat attack. So that would be 8 MS. I am not sure why you only had 7 escorts; if it is because that is all the escorts you have, or if it is because you split them up between 2 or more zones. Either way, I just wouldn't use 7 escorts because the odds are very good that I will lose more escorts than I will sink U-Boats. So I am not surprised that your 7 escorts did not score any hits. This does mean that some times it is a bit of a guessing game as to whether the German is going to raid the NA or the SA, but that is Ok, that is part of the cat and mouse fun of the game.
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