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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
There is one reason Prein succeeded. What he did was impossible. Therefore his attack was not expected. Even that was not enough without strike after strike of incredible luck. The odds that he would end up feeding the fishies was much greater than that he would sink anything at all.
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Another reason was that he did not suddenly decide to go attack the British fleet in one of their main bases. Admiral Doenitz noticed the gap in the blockships from aerial photographs, picked a time when he knew the harbor would be mostly empty of destroyers, hand-picked Gunther Prien for the job and then the two of them did a lot of very careful planning. Of course we have hindsight and the harbor is only as dangerous as the game developers and modders make it.