k just finished my 7th patrol
U411 starting apr 42.....
CAREER SUMMARY
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Rank: OBERLEUTNANT Z. S.
Name: SIEGFRIED HEINZ
Date of Birth: 21AUG16
Place of Birth: ESSEN
Date of Intake: 01APR36 (CREW 36)
Service History
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--Promotions----------------------------------------------------------
03DEC36 SEEKADETT
01APR38 FÄHNRICH Z. S.
01APR40 OBERFÄHNRICH Z. S.
01AUG40 LEUTNANT Z. S.
20APR42 OBERLEUTNANT Z. S.
--Medals--------------------------------------------------------------
14JUN42 IRON CROSS, SECOND CLASS
17AUG42 IRON CROSS, FIRST CLASS
10FEB43 GERMAN CROSS
20MAR43 KNIGHT'S CROSS
--Badges--------------------------------------------------------------
17AUG42 U-BOAT BADGE
17AUG42 U-BOAT FRONT CLASP
--U-Bootwaffe Postings------------------------------------------------
03OCT41 1ST FLOTILLA (COMMANDER TRAINING)
05APR42 7TH FLOTILLA (7 WAR PATROLS)
--U-Boat Command History----------------------------------------------
05APR42 U-411, TYPE VIIC (7 WAR PATROLS)
--U-Boat Patrol History-----------------------------------------------
01. 05APR42 - 20APR42 (16 DAYS)
Ships sunk: 4 (4 Merchant, 0 Warship)
Tonnage: 15799 (15799 Merchant, 0 Warship)
02. 21MAY42 - 14JUN42 (25 DAYS)
Ships sunk: 1 (1 Merchant, 0 Warship)
Tonnage: 5335 (5335 Merchant, 0 Warship)
U-Boat damaged
03. 15JUL42 - 17AUG42 (34 DAYS)
Ships sunk: 4 (4 Merchant, 0 Warship)
Tonnage: 19590 (19590 Merchant, 0 Warship)
04. 17SEP42 - 31OCT42 (45 DAYS)
Ships sunk: 2 (2 Merchant, 0 Warship)
Tonnage: 15471 (15471 Merchant, 0 Warship)
05. 01DEC42 - 10FEB43 (72 DAYS)
Ships sunk: 3 (2 Merchant, 1 Warship)
Tonnage: 6315 (5123 Merchant, 1192 Warship)
06. 13MAR43 - 20MAR43 (8 DAYS)
Ships sunk: 0 (0 Merchant, 0 Warship)
Tonnage: 0 (0 Merchant, 0 Warship)
U-Boat damaged
07. 23MAY43 - 24JUN43 (33 DAYS)
Ships sunk: 3 (3 Merchant, 0 Warship)
Tonnage: 17605 (17605 Merchant, 0 Warship)
--U-Boat Campaign Summary---------------------------------------------
Total ships sunk: 17 (16 Merchant, 1 Warship)
Total tonnage: 80115 (78923 Merchant, 1192 Warship)
Enemy planes downed: 0
Crew lost: 0
[Generated 16AUG05]
im using a modified rnd layer. i altered most single merchant traffic by hand, to get a more realistic result. im still not finished tho, since it takes quite a long time, but th eresult is well worth it.
overall rub/opsmod/sh3 commander is a great anhancement to the game. deffo. i hope u guys keep working on it, to improve it even more.
a few things that might be interesting...
the standart 300km range for radio contacts spawns a tad too many convoy reports, imho. it should be reduced a bit. im playing with a 100km range atm, which gives me good results.
airattacks have a great feel now. single planes with a speed that allowes for diving, when visibility is good. had frequent encounters with asw planes on my last 3 patrols while crossing the biscay. i needed to employ real like tactics to get through it unharmed. submerged cruise at daylight, and highspeed surfaced travel at night or at bad weather. didnt tried flak defence tho. on my last convoy encounter in the aj sectors, i even had to deal with long range asw patrols, after i got sighted. i was driven of my shadowing position 2 times.
the destroyers are much too weak imho. i can only speak for the timeframe i played, but it is way too easy to sneak away submerged. their inability to keep a decent lock, even when grouped up with 4 destroyers, seems very unrealistic, and dc attacks in general are very unchallanging atm.
i got only damaged twice, and this only by gunfire. speaking of gunfire. if there is a way to nerv it drasticly, you should do it. the magic long range ultraprecise gunfire is realy realy anoying, and very unrealistic. especialy after reading mcintyre´s uboat killer, the whole "dd fires his deckgun at uboat,and scores hits, while charging at it" seems extremly far off. any1 who read that book probably knows what im talking about.
anyway... i hope my impressions help a bit.
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