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>>>I guess then that the use of submarines is to destroy enemy
>>>carriers...
>>
>>Their purpose is Not to be Seen. They can be used to attack other
>>ships or, more spectacularly, to launch missile attacks upon ground
>>targets.
>
>Or deliver commandos, or rescue downed airmen, or monitor a surface
>fleet's radio communications, or track test missiles, or locate things
>on the ocean bottom, or tap undersea communications cables...
>
>(For those of you who don't make a hobby of reading about submarines,
>all of these things are uses to which subs have actually been put, not
>theoretical situations.)

You forgot exploring underneath the polar icecap. That one's been tricky.

Ebony the Black Dragon
aka Draco Draconis Ebenium
known to the Silent Service as Aaron F. Johnson,
Senior Editor, Living Room Games
http://www.lrgames.com

(who's guessing that Gryphon has read Blind Man's Bluff too)