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Originally Posted by Matador.es
That does make 18K GRT per patrol, but just 9 WAR patrols in about 6 years
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Not really, HLW began his first combat patrol as a commander in Dec 1939 in U-5 and was transferred ashore after completing his 8th patrol with U-96 on April 1 1942. He commanded one additional patrol in late 1944, taking a u-boat from France to Norway to escape the Allied occupation of Brest. Even counting the 6-7 weeks of that last patrol, he was only active as a frontboot commander for a total of about 2 1/2 years.
Whatever the discrepancies that exist between average patrol length in the game vs. real life, looking at # of patrols made by a particular real commander vs. the full timespan of the war doesn't give an accurate comparison. Most of them (and more likely all of them) were only in command of a frontboot for a portion of the war, not the entire duration of hostilities. The rest of the time they made no patrols because they were no longer serving in that capacity.