[Gustav Schiebert]

Thanks for reading and for the advice chaps. Having slept on it a bit, I think I was being a bit harsh on myself with hindsight. I try to play as realistic as possible, and having read a lot of KTBs where Donitz writes on scathing comments about commanders who return to base with minor damage I was keen to avoid that. Also, the key factor about not being able to do underwater torpedo attacks was pretty key.

Donitz himself in Ten Years and Twenty Days makes it pretty clear he expected commanders to be totally unwavering, single minded and persistent but if I was doing this IRL, sublynx you are spot on with the whole crew respect thing. And at the end of the day he who fights and runs away...

Perhaps overthinking slightly but this is exactly the sort of thing I like to do, and that SH3 and SUBSIM help you do, is take the game further and use it as a really good historical tool to understand a little bit more about what life is like.

Anyway, thanks again for reading that and for your thoughts, despite my initial reservations I'm coming round to agree with you now. Oblt z S Wils is going to have another go, as his Second War Patrol is coming up shortly, I shall keep you posted...