[Otto Heinzmeir]

There are maybe too many high ton ships, though looking at the top ace's stats from his type VIIb missions he had a lot of high ton ships. His last patrol was 70k+ tons and he had several 10k ton or higher ships in that one. In his last 5 missions almost all the ships were 5,000 tons or higher. Of course he isn't the norm, because he was the top ace and these missions were in 1940, when tonnage totals were at there highest. I may have to see if I can figure out the average ship tonnage would have been.

The tonnage per ship for typeIIA's is quite small. There range prevented them from getting patrols along the Western side of the UK or the Atlantic. Lots more coastel vessels and trawlers.

I think the biggest problems with excess tonnage in game occur early on in 1939, when its just too easy to rack up 40 tons or higher on helpless merchants in a typeVIIB. This is where its also noticeable that you come across a lot of 6K to 10K single ships. I find that I can't let them go though, doesn't seem realistic either to say will its too big I won't sink her. I get around this whole situation by starting with a typeIIA for 6 to 8 missions.