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Originally Posted by Leandros
Since there is some mix-up here of game and RL points I might as well do it like that, too. Firstly, as one writer states, I don't feel there is a great difference between a target registered as sunk or not. It's a game, so the satisfaction of good result should count as much as what you are credited. You can always brag about your feat in the night club the next night and nobody would blame you for not going for the merchant instead.
A loaded merchant a more valid target than a wounded Nelson? That may be so but your superiors would certainly appreciate the opportunity of some propaganda subjects. If not sunk, the British would of course deny everything...
What it cooks down to is this: You are standing in front of Dønitz the day after arriving back in St. Lorient. When you are airing your doubts to der Alte as to whether your decision was the correct one, he says: "Captain, you did the very right thing. But, why did you not surface immediately after and report the contact and position, and that you might have damaged it, with a possible loss of speed. We could have sent out our Küstenfliegers to look for him... ...After all, you were only a day out of St. Lorient."
Fred
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I did think on those lines - in hindsight, I could have turned on a parallel course and broken the surface (with decks awash) just long enough to transmit. In real life, the battleship would not have been able to train it's main or secondary armament before I could disappear under the surface again - but it would have been a hell of a risk for the boat and crew . . .
I still consider myself lucky to have escaped - the hydrophone operator was reporting sound contacts from one of escorts for hours after the attack.