[Mowgli]

When I selected the "Malfunctions" option from the excellent SH3 Commander mod and options control programme, little did I realise how fatal it could be.

I previously posted about diesel leakage whilst in transit to America and how I put it down to battle damage. Only just made it home.

Well I am not sure if I am going to get home this time.

I left the supply ship at Cadiz, made full speed with decks awash for deep water and waited for the first planes to come.

When they did, I had a shock. Gave the order to crash dive and the telegraph closed the engines down and I lost dive speed. Lucky my momentum took me down but took some damage to the tower.

So I cant crash dive because of a broken telegraph and am limping back to Lorient and staying under as much as possible but the planes are following me and I have taken damage on 3 attacks now.

So now I am waiting for night and will run on surface then and stay down during the day.

Seriously, as the SH3 Commander guide points out - the "Malfunctions/Sabotage" option means to say you have make some real hard decisions about continuing your patrol when you have mechanical problems.

Makes the game more interesting but not sure what it does for my stress levels.