Task force sea trials

[Behemoth]

I've been putting all my surface ships minus transports into Continuous, supply transport TFs so they will automatically gain experience ie; through sea trials. Is there a downside to doing this? I know it makes them vulnerable, but my question is, is this a workable solution to micromanging their shakedown cruises? thx out-
-B

[Mynok]

I just put them in transport convoys as escorts. The vast majority of the inexperienced ones are the PG/PC/MSW auxiliary types. They are designated mostly for escort duty anyway, so I just make sure only some of a TF's escorts are newbies. Never seem to have ships available just for training exercises. They are either in action or on much needed refit/repair.

[Behemoth]

Thanks Mynok. True not the best use of these ships I know, if I was playing a human I'd be short a couple of hundred tranports by now. Escort duty is a much better option, I will change doctrine as of yesterday.
-B

[Halsey]

I know this will be hard to do sometimes. If you can put at least one fairly trained ship with the rookies. A lot of times the green ships will attack if the trained one does. For the US use one of the DMS's or a flushdeck DD. They have a 4 for ASW, and are somewhat better trained.

[dereck]

ORIGINAL: Behemoth

I've been putting all my surface ships minus transports into Continuous, supply transport TFs so they will automatically gain experience ie; through sea trials. Is there a downside to doing this? I know it makes them vulnerable, but my question is, is this a workable solution to micromanging their shakedown cruises? thx out-
-B

You can do what I did with a lot of my ships I had in, like Pearl Harbor, that were below their non combat max skill level: I simply put them into a task force, set it to patrol and parked them a hex outside of Pearl Harbor and just left them there until they came back because of lack of fuel. They gained skill and weren't put into any danger.

[Mynok]

Halsey said it more clearly than I did: the key is to ensure that at least some of your escorts are fairly experienced. I've actually had some decent success using a DD or APD with 3-4 newbie PC's in ASW TF's. I got 3 hits on subs over the last two days--all by the PC's.

They seem to be doing ok, even though I'm not being very diligent about tracking the experience growth.