Hi Zedi, i´ve been lurking for some time but your thread prompted me to register. What I´d like to see in SH5 campains is some historical accuracy. I mean operating in a wolfpack or having orders to follow a convoy to guide other packmembers thats what the typical orders for uboat-crews were. The BdU never issued specific tonnage orders (Sink 50.000 tons) because he never knew if a certain boat even met the enemy. To locate an enemy convoi in a vast ocean is no easy feat and would have been impossible if any uboat-captain headed to where he wanted to.
I´d like to see some decent German AI. So that there is a chance that AI-boats attack and pull away the escorts.
I´d like to see the BdU order boats back to their position if they left it for no good reason. Some might find it very boring to patrol an area as part of a wolfpack - and nothing happens cause no convoi comes along. But that´s how things were.
Ever read "Das Boot" by Buchheim? Whole chapters go on about the colour of the air and sea - because nothing happens. An other interesting book is "Ali Cremer" (CO of U-333 and later one of the new XXI boats - don´t know if it´s available in english). In it it´s clearly illustrated how much punishment Type VII boats could take and that part of the job was WAITING for the enemy to show up (and from Black May onwards the job was to survive). You see, I´m becoming sidetracked. The stock campains are simply rubbish. Just my 2 cents. See/read you!
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