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...im of the opinion now that tonnage does'nt matter, what gets me excited/worried/anxious/thrills/boredom levels going is how can i get my crew home again with moderate tonnage whilst having engaged in a serious attack - maybe sinking nothing but coming out alive.
if i sink one reasoanbly sized ship and get away with a serious pounding from above i have more enjoyement than at any other time - and this, i think comes from reading the history and the reality of that war.

reading the history is essential to understanding what i am 'playing' at here: immersion is all and reading is the bed rock of immersion for me.

i think my highest ever score was something like 30.000 tonnes in one patrol - but we were all dead on the next from Captains over confidence. i thought i was being clever by sinking one destroyer in the convoy and used all my torps to get him - i got him and cheered loudly when he went down burning. but in my zealousness i'd forgotton the other three that came after me some time later. i was destroyed all hands trying to surface. running out of battery power i went for surrender, but it was too late. i lost, possibly, the best most experienced crew id ever had in this game, and it was down to me.

in reality i think this must have been a regular occurance:

'A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.' Napoleon Bonaparte