Well, my stock days may be over: I've just joined the bottom feeders during my 12th patrol during which I left St Nazaire for the first time (after some trouble finding the place...). 300 kilotons sunk in total woohoo. I came across a convoy at night in my assigned grid square, but its warship escort made depressingly short work of me. It all went bad when I submerged to avoid being spotted (about 3km from nearest ship) and promptly received a "We've been spotted, Sir!" message. Guess they heard me... I then surfaced to take on the Flower (?) Corvette racing toward me with my deck gun but quickly received some damage which I elected to repair UNDERwater :-) . Dropped to 100m but was soon done-in by depth charges. It's quite eerie (and terrifying) using the 'scope to peer at the surface while 100m down and seeing your nemises travelling above you with barrel after barrel pouring out their rear.
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