Frau:

I'm playing stock SH3, unsure if this matches your setup. Irish Sea does yield some merchant shipping here and there. Farther north you might encounter some heavies like C2, close to and out in the open waters. Also north over Scapa Flow. Hope that helps.

You'll find things to sink, for sure, and you don't have to be in avoidance mode all the time the water is still reasonably deep (deeper than the English Channel). I do sink ships in the Irish Sea and English Channel, you just have to pick your battles. When convoys start running, you can pick a lot of them off when they come down through the north end of the Irish Sea. It's great for that, because they have to come through that bottleneck on the way to Liverpool.

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:har::haha: But shes mine! I sunk the U.S.S. West Point in the Indian Ocean of all places...

Well, I think I'll give it a try, maybe hang out for a bit just outside the Bristol Channel and then scoot north past Ireland. Definitely going north around Scapa to see what turns up there provided I have any torps left... ATM it looks like I'll run out of fuel before I run out of eels, which would be a shame.

I also wondered about messing about in "Irish waters" given that she's neutral... altho I doubt the game takes that into consideration, I didn't know if keeping closer to the Irish coast would be a benefit. I was kinda surprised on the second patrol of my last career when I got new orders mid-patrol to spend 24 hours in a grid that put me very close to Londonderry and the northern Irish coast.

Ireland is neutral but as you may recall North Ireland sovrin British teritory, contested by the Irish though it may be, and they are most dicidedly not neutral. I have found the Northern aproaches to the Irish sea to be rich in costal shiping and I think that there is always a convoy rout runing just off the north coast there.

:doh:

Of course you're right and I should've realized that when I was typing out "northern Irish coast" - DUH.

Blame it on the diesel fumes.

me? I'm having to either restart in 1939, or start up in 1940 due to their stupid save game management system. *grr*

why not use SH3Commander?

Will that allow me to restore my lost games?

no, sorry about that.
but you can start your career at any time in any boat you like.

Oh sweet, so i can effectively start on April 3rd or whatever date it was in flotilla 2 and pick up as if i never lost my save games? I can cope with that :)

Tho i will miss some training and medals, but so what, i can cope.

Thanks!

you are welcome!
just remember: it's like starting a new career, so your renown is down at 1,500 .....

Eh, Im not too concerned about renown. I used most of mine to get good officers, so i can pretend they were assigned to another boat during refit or something. ;)

Sunk by river class in the fog :nope: victim of the radar
It was good career ~250k t from september 1940 to may 1941 100% GWX
I took this like a opportunity to test LSH v5.