Panser: I think you are exactly right. The awards for the boat Captain seem to be strictly random. Last night I went on a pretty unsuccessful patrol. I was down around Gibralter looking for targets of opportunity. I got too close to the harbor and had to sneak away from some anti-sub patrol boats. The weather was horrible and on my way out of the straights of Gibralter I picked up a lone ore ship. It was a big one and I fired all 6 torpedoes at it since I hadn't fired anything anyway and it was close to the end of my patrol. Only one torpedo hit and I lost the ore ship in the bad weather. I increased the time to 32X and headed home and suddenly saw a message that the ore ship sank! When I exited the patrol I saw I was awarded diamonds to the Knights Cross, the Submarine badge, and the Close Combat sub badge!
And I have the ultimate weirdness today....I sank a British sailing sloop and a passenger-cargo ship and went back to port and was awarded the German Cross.
I can't believe that nobody has hacked into whatever file is responsible for these awards, or hasn't made a program that awards them more logically. As it is it's so random and weird that you have no real way of knowing how any of the awards and decorations are earned.
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