Submarines seem horribly vulnerable. Playing as Germany I've delayed sending them out beyond the Skagerak until Norway was more or less taken and France has fallen and I've got the first couple of trade interdiction sub technologies. Then they go out and I split them into probably three groups, re-base to La Rochelle and most of them get sunk pretty quickly.
Of course trade interdiction submarines didn't go around in squadrons of twelve, or none, or six, or even three, they operated alone and tended to die alone. Though the practice of gathering into wolf packs to maximise damage developed later. So should one micromanage one's submarine fleet, sending each submarine out separately, or could those allocated to a zone be encountered separately by naval forces ? The whole squadron of submarines fighting a battle with a flotilla of destroyers and cruisers thing didn't really happen.
Italy is still putting so much effort into Africa (project Giraffe ?) and leaves the Italian peninsula and even Libya under-guarded. I thought Mussolini had Mediterranean rather than African ambitions ? I played as the Soviets, Konev's army swept through Italy from the North, the Italian army spread across central Africa.
Of course trade interdiction submarines didn't go around in squadrons of twelve, or none, or six, or even three, they operated alone and tended to die alone. Though the practice of gathering into wolf packs to maximise damage developed later. So should one micromanage one's submarine fleet, sending each submarine out separately, or could those allocated to a zone be encountered separately by naval forces ? The whole squadron of submarines fighting a battle with a flotilla of destroyers and cruisers thing didn't really happen.
Italy is still putting so much effort into Africa (project Giraffe ?) and leaves the Italian peninsula and even Libya under-guarded. I thought Mussolini had Mediterranean rather than African ambitions ? I played as the Soviets, Konev's army swept through Italy from the North, the Italian army spread across central Africa.