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Originally Posted by Randomizer
As a U-Boat captain, BdU expects you to find and attack convoys. At least one captain was condemned as a coward and sentenced to be shot for consistantly failing to do so (KL Heinz Hirsacker U-572).
http://uboat.net/men/commanders/495.html
SH3 is a bit more forgiving than real life and if you choose to hunt stragglers and lone ships and avoid convoys completely, there is nobody to know but yourself. An effective captain tries to select fights he has a reasonable prospect of winning.
Personally I find stalking convoys a challenge, even in 1944 and 45, but then I seldom get more than two late-war patrols out of a career without getting sunk along the way... |
Additionally commanders that came back from a patrol having sunk nothing (except in cases of mechanical failure or getting critically damaged close to/shortly after leaving port) were usually relieved of command of their ship and got reassigned. Coming back with 0 sinkings was the end of several captains careers, upon return they were never given a command at sea again. Unless you had mechanical failures en route to your patrol and were forced to abort very few commanders that completed patrols having come back with 0 sinkings (and sometime not firing a single torpedo) ever got to go back out to sea again.