Actually had a successful patrol (albeit off the back of a botched single mission) last night. The convoy I was meant to be hunting had some very determined destroyers with it and was heading towards the Orkney gap, dragging me towards even more destroyers, so I decided I had better plans and began to head south down the coast. First thing I came across was a little sailing boat, British flagged. Don't mind if I do test the 20mm, thanks!
Next encounter was a tramp steamer. I recently installed Hitman's GUI on the glowing recommendation of a friend and while I quite like it, I have very little idea how to do firing solutions with it even after RTFM-ing. I just eyeballed the shot and slammed an eel right into the middle of the ship beneath the waterline, which set it on fire and slowed it right down. I shadowed it for a bit but it didn't sink, in fact it turned towards me, so I put another underneath it on a magnetic pistol. It blew up right under it and cracked the keel, which was immensely satisfying even though it was a tiny ship really.
Heading further south I spotted a fishing trawler at the eastern end of the deep basin off Hartlepool. I sunk it with the FlaK again, then headed into Hartlepool itself. Spotted two medium cargoes in port, one broadside and one moored with its bow to me, so I blasted two eels on impact pistols at the first and one on a magnetic pistol on the second. The first two ran true and blew up against it just above the keel and spaced quite well along the ship, it began flooding evenly (though very slowly). The other torpedo missed completely, not sure why but not that it mattered because I realised there was a net blocking its intended course anyway.
I got back out of Hartlepool safely and was heading to Wilhelmshaven when I found a passenger/cargo right in front of me. I figured I'd harass it with the FlaK and see if I could at least disable it by shooting up the superstructure and cargo. I think the cargo may have been something explosive, since the ship exploded violently and sank with all decks ablaze after a few magazines of 20mm.
Got back to Wilhelmshaven unmolested with 5 ships sunk for 10,000 GRT, all in a little Type IIA.
