[MantiBrutalis]

Diary of Manfred Bollmann, 18th January 1941, U-104, 150km south of Greenland.

This is our fifth day on the supply ship. Well not “on” the ship, but beside it. When we found it, we discovered a type VIIC U-81 “Sharkfin” waiting for two days already for the sea to calm down. The Sharkfin was damaged in the Atlantic, and like us, this supply ship was the only thing they could manage to get to. But unlike us, they can’t submerge to get a rest from the waves. The supply ship is freshly packed, so there isn’t all that much space, so the captain of the Sharkfin asked us if some of his crew could stay on our boat, until the storm passes.

Sometimes, the captain picked some of our crew to “visit” the supply ship, where the rest of Sharkfin’s crew and the supply ship’s crew were. Not anymore, captains of both U-boats had a huge argument, Sharkfin’s captain didn’t believe our captain the tonnage we sank so far and accused him of lying and faking patrol logs.

We spend our time playing cards, telling stories, and generally not doing anything useful what so ever. With our boat packed full with people, there is no space for maintenance duties. Despite the cold weather, it’s boiling hot in the boat, our medic has concerns about hygiene. Anyway, this storm has to pass someday. When that day comes, we have to part with Sharkfin. And possibly sail home. Finally.



Note 1 – With the manual targeting – I backed down a bit, I can now pretty reliably hit and sink stuff using almost exclusively the Map (F5) with Map Contact Update on. And I am angry with myself. The map has all the precise information already there, so I am only extracting the data from the map using basic geometry. Still feels like cheating. But when I try No Map Contact, I can’t even navigate to a place where I can get a decent 1,5km shot. Guessing AoB is f*ing hard and destroys all the work. Maybe if I could get to the point of shooting, things could go my way, since I think I understand what I am supposed to do. *sigh*

Note 2 – I installed SH3 Commander this morning, and so far I didn’t even launch the game. I spent the day screwing around with the settings, adding more cargo types and so on.