I started with a TypeVIIB and switched to a "C" after patrol #2 starting in 1940 (I usually start in 39 but thought I would give the other losers like Prein and Kretschmer a head start on scoring :rotfl: )
3 patrols and 95,000 tons. I expect to be lead scorer by mid 1941.
Has anyone ever tried adding antisub craft in the middle of a convoy? You would have to make them "not" escorts in the RND group for them to be so placed. But, this might make it more difficult.
My motive is to force realistic difficulties which by the way SH3 works does not seem attainable. I just wondered if I increased the escorts outside and added armed trawlers with DCs inside the convoy if that would make it so I just could not have these high scores.
Even with serious tonnage reductions I am over 30K average and before doing that my last 16 patrols with normal tonnage was 600K of which 3 patrols were with a Type II. 13 patrols in a typeVII for 530K is over 40K per patrol playing at 100% with all escorts at 3 or 4 crew rating. Too much!!!!
Kretschmer sank 44 ships in 16 patrols for 266K (grt) ((some say 256K)) and that was the highest in WWII
So, I sank 50% more ships and 2 1/2 times the tonnage.
With this new lower average I will be double Kretschmer at 16 patrols.
It seems to me 250K at 16 patrols should be very hard to do but that is far from the case. Even at 100% that would be considered a very low score in SH3
I reduced the tonnage, now I need to make it harder for me to sink ships. If I have to increase the number of escorts to levels too high, well being my tonnage levels are too high and that ain't right either so it might balance the reality of results.
Does the search ever end?
And, if it does will that cause me to lose interest? :hmm:
Is it perfection we seek or the fun of achieving it?
Wulfmann 