
, a new paintjob sure wouldn't have cut it.
It really was a frustrating experience, more than 2 hours realtime i played cat and mouse (guess who was the latter

) with a hunter killer group that nailed me on my way back to St. Nazaire. Sea being calm, destroyers probably elite, i couldn't sneak away. My only hope was to continue trying to evade their attacks... that is until a DC made short work of the electric engines. Instead of playing sitting duck underwater, i blew ballast tanks to surface for some artillery exchange while trying to position one destroyer between me and the other vessels

...pointless i know, but it sure was a spectacle.
That was my fourth campaign, i never managed to get this far (Nov 1943) w/o getting sunk.