Diary of Manfred Bollmann, 13th January 1941, U-104, 150km south of Greenland.
The storm has raged for three days now. Yesterday morning, we arrived at the coordinates of the Belchen supply ship, but visibility is very poor and there’s no sound of engines underwater. We don’t want to risk lights in case the British have captured the ship and are waiting for us behind the fog. The supply ship doesn’t have lights on, because they don’t know we are coming.
We are slowly searching the area. The crew is restless. If the ship isn’t here, we are done. BdU still doesn’t respond. Thing looks quite grim at the moment.
Note 1 – We will see. I will probably add SH3 Commander today and see if it breaks my standing mods or my career. I started a side career with a IIA for two reasons: Because this “main” one takes five times longer to write the story then to play the game, so I don’t get to play the game much. And to work on my manual targeting. There is a lot of options for doing this, but none seems to work for me so far. Anyway, we’ll see if I can nail it before the story ends the patrol. (Also the IIA is small and you don’t get that much action, so I can remember what is going on in the “story” career)
Note 2 – One of “my own” tweaks to the game is to make supply ships work like milkcows (as in 1.6). I hated how it made a new patrol, took a month, just so you can sail back home.
Note 3 – More notes than story in this one, sorry!
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