Your lead destroyer fires starshells, lighting up the unidentified ships. The bright light lets you identify the ships - two mine layers escorted by two T-boats. The mine layers will have cannon, they are fast, and you should expect that they have just left a trail of mines behind them. The T-boats will be a bigger problem. They are small, fast, and carry enough torpedoes to sink your entire patrol. Watch out for a torpedo run! If an T-boat heads straight for you and then suddenly turns away it means he has just launched his torpedoes.

Your captain opens the battle with his four 4.7 inch guns. Your lookouts try to keep a close eye on the T-boats in case they make a move. Just as your guns prepare to open fire a German star shell burst overhead. They know you are there!