I'm on my 3rd ever career, just finished patrol 3 (2nd wartime) in my poor little Type-II. Patrols haven't been a huge success by some of your standards it seems, but I felt I did good for someone with only two dozen patrols (most in a Type-II) experience and doing full manual TDC shots (no notepad for me) and whatnot.
Plus its extra fun because I'm writing about this patrol on another forum I go to for some friends and they're enjoying it quite a bit.
Last patrol was quite fun, SC3GEN gave me orders to sneak into Kristiansands and reconnoiter it's facilities, which was quite harrowing as it was my first harbor infiltration, even if it was a neutral harbor. After that we cruised to our patrol grid in Zetland and then down the East coast of England where I learned that the 20mm flak can actually be somewhat useful for sinking small ships (I had figured everything above a sailboat would be too tough for a small AA gun).
Patrol ended on a bit of a downer, right near the entrence of the channel torpedoed a medium cargo with a magnetic just in front of the funnel during the night. Come the dawn it was still sailing along seemingly unaffected and my stuborness in following it had put us down to 25% battery and half 02. Made it out okay though, still that could've been another 5000 tones, how did it just shrug a hit off like that?
(Don't mind the 0.09% damage on the shakedown patrol, that was a... minor training accident during a crash dive drill...
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