ew, thanks installed and started the HT version of the missions and played mission one last night.
1) First of all the escort and armed trawler (the briefing said a schnellboot but no matter) acted really strange...it went straight out then stopped. First time I figured just bypass it and I went on my merry way til *bang* "we're taking damage" death screen, yes a mine.

Second try the escort carried on but was sunk itself...so out of desperation I opened the mission file in the editor and saw the minefield across it's path...and a subnet before that. I guess it got caught in the subnet and then got free but it does not show the correct path out.
2) Ran into a large convoy off the north coast of Turkey heading to Batum. A large convoy with 2 aremd trawlers as escorts. I think this is out of place as I doubt there were such huge convoys in the Black Sea...and no British T3s. Too bad we don't have some more Soviet ships...we got the Project 7 thanks to Sergbuto, would like a Maxim Gorky, Sevastopol, Tashkent.