I'm pretty sure that the number of enemy aircraft that you may encounter depends on the level of time compression used and I think that this applies to ships too. If I'm not mistaken the game compensates for high tc levels by lowering the amount of planes and ships to reduce the load on the pc.
If you're playing from 1941 onwards & crossing the Bay of Biscay while surfaced in daylight, I'd run the game at no more than 128x. I was playing stock once & got hit really hard by a Hurricane. I'd been running the game as fast as I could go and my boat suffered a lot of damage. We were only a few hours from base & just barely made it back.
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