Why are they so damn sneaky?!
March 1940, found a beautiful convoy left virtually unescorted off the Portuguese coast. Sank both the Black Swans that were with it (did you know that a VIIB can out-turn a Black Swan whilst submerged?), surfaced and set to work shooting the ducks.
Unfortunately for me, there was an S-class sub hiding at the back of the convoy. The sly little sod started blasting away at me and scored a scary number of hits before I even realised where the shots were coming from. Worse, I thought my gunners could out-duel him.
I gave up after about ten hits on my poor old U-46, while the British boat merrily sailed away without a scratch. The schweinhund!
(still bagged some 45k tons - not a bad haul for an early war convoy - so I can't complain too much
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