I switched from SHV to SHIII + GWX recently myself, and started a career in 1940 in a type IX. I got word of a convoy a few hundred klicks from me and I raced to intercept, and it was a foul moonless night pouring with rain when I reached their track and submerged to see if I could pick them up on hydrophone.
I raised scope as I reached 10m only to see the bow of a Flower class corvette pass about 3m to the right of me and my sonar guy started screaming. On a night so dark and stormy I couldn't see my hand in front of me, he had spotted and nearly rammed me. It was pure luck I chose to dive right then to stop snd listen, or I was rammed. That little schwinehunde pounded me for an hour like he could see me clear as day, while the huge convoy zigged over the top of me. I couldn't shake him, he only left once the convoy passed out of range.
And yet a week later, I intercepted and infiltrated a convoy in daylight guarded by 4 Flower class and sank 3 ships, as well as hitting and damaging one of the escorts. I immediately went to 155m and headed on the reverse of the convoys course, and two escorts began fishing for me. They got pretty close at first, but I crawled away at 2 knots while they kept circling the same spot, dropping charges all over it. I sloped off with no problem, and even managed to sink a straggler an hour later, causing them to run in and thrash the water to a foam again while I sneaked off again.
Maybe the first guy had radar and superb sonar? Maybe I can believe it was some Johnny Walker veteran guy with leet skills? One thing is for sure, they're not all equal in GWX, and I love it.
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