My wife would say, "you have no idea.":D

Type IXB (My favorite).
U64 because I try to have the first day, of my boats first war patrol, match (or nearly so) that of the real boat.

Doing the same with U-128.
Starting in january 1942, my first trip goes to Florida :yeah:

Ahahah:rotfl2:

Well as you say, he was one of the aces, and sank 25 ships. So I should have a good run before I get smashed and sent to the bottom.

Joachim Schepke

Kapitänleutnant (CREW 30)



Successes
36 ships sunk for a total of 153,677 GRT
4 ships damaged for a total of 17,229 GRT
1 ship a total loss for a total of 2,205 GRT

After 5 patrols in U-100 she was heavily damaged on 17 March 1941 by depth charges from HMS Walker and HMS Vanoc while executing an attack on Convoy HX112. U-100 was forced to surface and was detected on radar and consequently rammed by Vanoc. Schepke and 37 crew members perished in the ocean; six crew members were rescued. Schepke was last reported on the bridge of U-100. When Vanoc rammed his boat, he was crushed into his own periscope standards, and he went down with his boat.

Ohh I see. So Schepke himself sank 36 ships, but 25 of those ships were sunk by U-100.

Yes, he sank 2 in U-3, 9 in U-19, and 25 in U-100. The 4 damaged and 1 totaled were also in U-100.

U-99 was sunk by the same convoy's escorts that night as well. Kretschmer had better luck than Schepke and was captured.

A tough night indeed.

U-48, a VIIB, assigned by SH3 Commander.

Aware that I have Herbert Schultze's boat, I am taking good care of her and getting (in June 1940) somewhat better results (200K to his 146K).

But every time I get a ding in her I cringe... what's he going to say when I pull into W'haven with a big scratch down the side?

:rotfl2:

"You're grounded. And get a haircut."

I lost U-529 yesterday in a fouled up save game:(

:wah: Farewell U-529! :dead:

I take it that you have no backup from an earlier point? Expecting save game corruption, I tend to make a backup .zip file of my save games every now and then.

well it give me a chance to start from scratch

I tend to use numbers of boats already destroyed when my career begins, or those that never did war patrols. Reason for this is simple. I just hate when I receive a radio message sent by "my boat".

in my first game i started with U-47, unaware of u-47s exploits in real life at the time, imagine my surprise when i got messages of u-47 in scapa flow!