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Originally Posted by pickler
thanks for the response, i finished about 3 patrols. one to kingston jamaica with no sightings. on the return home i spotted a single british cargo ship which i sunk with guns. other than that nothing else seen or sunk. i have tried following the convoy paths outlined in gwx map with no luck. each patrol is about 6 hours. im thinking of reinstalling the game.
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That's what convoys were for in real life: turning normally busy sea lanes into a desert where u-boats would burn fuel for weeks before they could make a contact, if at all. That's part of the reason the KM estimated before the war that something in the ballpark of a thousands of u-boats would be needed to rapidly win the war, as covering all the possible approaches in sufficient strenght required huge numbers. That the Luftwaffe could never provide a meaningful number of properly equipped long range patrol planes with suitably trained crews only made matters worse. And thanks to allied code breaking efforts traffic would be actively re-routed around the u-boats (though british codes being in turn compromised the germans were sometimes able to repay in kind).
You can patrol choke points where trafic converge but it is a risk, at least in 1944 even raising a snorkel for few minutes is playing russian roulette in AM52, and you still have to be prepared to spend quite a bit of time there.