[Admiral Von Gerlach]

Back then, signalling was with flag hoists or semaphore, lights at night, and primitive wireless, often disrupted. So the hunt for and evasion and attacks by submarines were done by brute strength, fortitude and seamanship. There was NO radar, LORAN, and all navigatoin was by star and time fix, and the skills of the crews. Command among units was very slow, and based on very ponderous group and formation tactics. Sort of like two heavy weight boxers with blindfolds boxing in the dark.

Subs were a new weapon, and for much of the early war, the British, who had the largest fleet, tried to ignore them. They learned the hard way it was not possible.

So the missions for this mod will be interesting and may be based on FINDING the targets as well as sinking them. There were shipping lanes but after the convoy system was imposed later on in the war, it was not easy for a small frail U boat to do much more than attack and run. Will be fun to see what our Mod Master comes up with.