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Originally Posted by walsh2509
If tonnage , what ? I have done 8 patrols from Sept39 to July40, ave 3 ships a patrol. 22 Merchants 2 Warships .. 155,700tn
looking at Uboat.net .. Commanders with over 100,000tn .. No12 with 155,709tn who got Iron Cross 2nd class, 1st class and Knight Cross , Knight Cross with Oak Leaves.
For 155,000tn I got Iron Cross 2nd class , 1st class ..
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I don't have SH5 myslef, but a close friend has it and I'm relaying his experience as well what I could gather from playing it for a few hours.
He got it at the end of third mission in late december '39. By pure luck he met and sank a 20000 ton carrier south of Ireland. Ay that point, he had already sank 90k-100k tons of merchants. Back to the base, a popup window asked him if he wanted to take command of a new boat. He was expecting to be transferred to a type VIIB not a VIIC! Maybe a bug?
The best uboot commanders sank about 150-200K tons each over the course of 1-2 years. Not all of them ended up their career at the bottom of the ocean or in a prison camp; some were later transferred to training duties or desk work. Their knowledge and experience was too valuable to be risked in a mission.
Some Luftwaffe aces, in contrast, fought till the end scoring 200+ kills in dogfights, although the chances of a pilot surviving a 'hard' landing or escaping a plane on fire are much more than those of a sailor in a submarine (some Luftwaffe aces wrecked 10-20 planes during their career and even fought with bad injuries from past actions)
In Silent Hunter there are much more targets available on sea at any time. Hence it's not common to expend all the torpedoes in one week or less. Couple it with the 'superhuman' sonarman and sentries which are able to discover a target better than a military spy satellite and you'll have a picture why it's so easy to rake 300-400k ton in less than one year. If Doenitz's men had been so lucky to sink so many ships in the first two years of war, Britain would have been starved into submission before 1942.