Alright, sounds great, tough i might go to 300M, maximum if so, its rather scary hearing the hull burst! :o

Hmm ... I seem to have written 300 feet, not 300 meters. :hmm2:

The AI with or without TMO is too easy, I can walk over it with 100k+ tons on a patrol. The only real challenge is trying to make the most out of the torpedoes. Taking away contact updates and auto targeting just means that time is slightly less compressed, I still only fight undefended merchants at 500 yards.
Based on the technological disparity I would conjecture that the Allied submariners had it a lot easier than their German counterparts, and frankly any true attention to realism will be void of challenge. I'd rather see all of the merchant ships in convoys with 8+ escorts with radar detection and planes chasing after it. Or I can play Aces of the Deep.

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I am playing TMO light and the AI is supposed to be a little easier than the full version.

My first enemy encounters as against using other interfaces is that I would still say is pretty aggressive especially if you are in the right place at the wrong time.

Taking on a convoy or task force at 1,000 yards can be suicidal.

I think the Gar had a test depth of 250 ft. However, there was a safety factor in this, so they could actually go deeper. TMO, and the other mods model this.

That said, if you suffered 50 % hull damage, and were lucky enough to survive, I would go straight home, and not look for trouble.

Attacking a convoy might be a problem, but I wouldn't know in patch 1.4 or TMO 1.9 because it's full of undefended merchants. I mean I can just sit there with the scope raised firing one torpedo at a time. Maybe 20 minutes later they'll send a laughable airplane after me.
The only challenge I got in about 15-20 hours is I attacked a 2 destroyer, 1 light cruiser task force and got a handful of depth charges but that was it and I got the cruiser.
Is it significantly better with the expansion and TMO 2.5? This is why I only play old games, because they're more likely to have their issues ironed out and pay more relative attention to substance.
I'm going to give Silent Service 2 a try, I remember the first one giving me nothing but convoys on the C64 (as Aces of the Deep does, at least in later periods).