Well, I found myself at sea in my Type VIIb a few days ago off Scotland during the first week of April, 1940. Two weeks of reaching and patrolling my assigned zone and the area near Scotland had yielded nothing so far - not even a sound contact :(

In an unexpected encounter, I had just stumbled across my good buddy and fellow Kaleun Thomsen that morning, who had just left from Kiel and told me that our gallant forces were gathering to launch an invasion of Norway in a few days.

Thomsen was carrying secret orders from BdU for all available U-boats to proceed to patrol areas off Norway to intercept the task forces and troop transport convoys the British were expected to send there in response to our invasion, so I immediately altered course and set off for Norway.

I spent the rest of the month patrolling up and down the Norwegian coast and hanging around outside various Norwegian ports, especially ones that hadn't yet fallen to our troops. I managed to sink one Norwegian C2 that was fleeing a port as our troops advanced, but that was the only ship I was able to spot the entire patrol.

However, I did get inundated with a ton of task force and warship spotting reports (both enemy and friendly) all up and down the coast and between England and Norway - just my bad luck that they always just happened to be out of reach and I was never in a position to be able to intercept any of them. Leads me to believe though that RUB1.43 must have added something historically-oriented to have caused that much apparent activity in that area during that time frame.

Having exhausted my fuel (and my crew) from my 6 week patrol, I had to return to Kiel for refit with almost a full load of torps. Now, it's the first of June 1940, and I'm heading back out from Kiel to see if I can help intercept some of the British naval forces ferrying troops and supplies across the Channel. Scuttlebutt among the crews in Kiel indicated that our Panzer forces have broken through to the Channel coast and bottled up the BEF in Dunkirk, and the British are attempting to mount an evacuation. Hopefully, there'll be something there for my boat to sink when we get there :)

Well if youre using the same mods I use (RUB 1.43) Then you wont see it.

Nothing....Zilch.....Zip........

Patroled the English Channel Near Dunkirk, from Late May to Mid June 1940. Cities and Ports were captured. But no ships sailed to and from Dunkirk.

Well this would have to be added in the scr file. Maybe the Ops people can add it in their next version. I myself always avoid the channel like the plague.

U-boat War Ace (Wolfpack) mod-campaign includes "Overlord" operation and Omaha beach.

I try to avoid it as well....

But I didnt want to miss the evacuation :arrgh!: