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And yet again, I want to remind that in Silent Hunter games, one plays the commander of a submarine, not the sub itself - usually geared towards the more successful ones, at that. While it's undeniable that U-boats had it a bit tougher by the end, among commanders, particularly the more successful ones, the casualties were not all that high. In fact, out of the top 10 U-boat commanders, only one died on patrol during the war (Prien) - out of the top 10 US submarine commanders, that number was two (Morton and Dealey). The number of U-boat combat losses is about 11-12 times higher than US combat losses, but the number of patrols made by U-boats is some 5 times greater, so again, the difference is not as huge as it initially looks. What's more, because so many of the U-boat losses are concentrated in the last 25 months of the war, it's actually statistically true that serving on a U-boat between 1939 and early 1943 was actually "safer" than on a US submarine at any point in the war. So there's something about mathematics - conclusions from stats, as with everything, also very much depend on the perspective you take on them.