The most that can be boasted of is that one masters the "game." In real life, any U-boat that would try going toe to toe with an escort would be turned into scrap metal in short order. When we play SH3 we have the choice of two styles of play: arcade or simulation of real U-boat tactics. Due to flaws in the game engine it may be possible to accomplish what wasn't done in real life, but we should never deceive ourselves that what we might pull off makes us better than real life Kaleuns. For example, it is very easy in this game to raid harbours, but in real life Prien considered his escape from Scapa Flow extremely fortunate. After his raid, harbour defences were tightened up everywhere and though I may be wrong, I cannot recall if any other U-boats repeated his coup.
A U-boat was a poor gunnery platform. In all but the calmest seas it pitched and heaved, throwing off accuracy. Gunners were naked to enemy fire; which of them would dare venture onto a bare deck and get into a duel with an escort's multiple guns with high rates of fire raking their boat? That's the sort of thing that would earn a Knight's Cross, posthumously.
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