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Beery · 08-01-05, 06:09 PM

It's something that only happens intermittently. In fact it's so intermittent that it's hard to tell whether it's supposed to be a feature, or whether it's a bug.

The fact is, though, that in real life no German U-boat commander ever did more than 16 patrols. Most top-scorers were removed from front line service before they had completed 9 patrols, and a quarter of them never even got to patrol number 6. Commanding a U-boat was not a long-term activity. For the best commanders a year at the front was about average.

08-01-05, 06:09 PM	#7
Beery Admiral Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Silver Spring, MD, USA (but still a Yorkshireman at heart - tha can allus tell a Yorkshireman...) Posts: 2,497 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	It's something that only happens intermittently. In fact it's so intermittent that it's hard to tell whether it's supposed to be a feature, or whether it's a bug. The fact is, though, that in real life no German U-boat commander ever did more than 16 patrols. Most top-scorers were removed from front line service before they had completed 9 patrols, and a quarter of them never even got to patrol number 6. Commanding a U-boat was not a long-term activity. For the best commanders a year at the front was about average. __________________ "More mysterious. Yeah. I'll just try to think, 'Where the hell's the whiskey?'" - Bob Harris, Lost in Translation. "Anyrooad up, ah'll si thi" - Missen.