Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: dr.hal

One thing that we seem to be overlooking in this thread is the support ships and the losses they would take. It is all very nice and flashy to talk about killing BBs, CAs, etc, but sometimes the ships behind the ships are more important. I think the Sub Tenders in Manila are very valuable and a prime target. Too bad you can't target specific ships. By taking out the tenders, you take out the resupply of US subs short of Pearl until the US can get another AS to Oz (my experience is that only sub tenders of a specific nationality can resupply subs of the same nationality). An empty ammo sub is almost as good as a dead sub. It is a long way between Pearl and the western Pacific. Hal