[Wulfmann]

While I play at 100% and no saves, no restart, once dead start new career and I have more than doubled the number of escorts for all convoys and have no escort lower than a veteran rating (3) I have eliminated almost all 4 rated (elite) escorts in the game. If there are 2 elite escorts there is virtually no chance of escaping and with a bunch there is no point in going on patrol except to die (not unrealistic but really)
I start by going to 13 meters on approach as my standard PD (12 is default) If escort makes a run on me I drop to 14. If I dive deep I go to 220-240. But, before I dive I have taken the chance to stay up long enough to plot an escape route by observing where the escorts are and which are reacting. I prefer cutting an angled line across the convoy. When I go deep (slow if not persued fast if I have been found and they are on the way) I, by carefully listening to each of the escorts and when you hear them accelerate and drop their cans I make a 90 degree turn and go to flank for 10 seconds. They know where I am so I am not giving them new info and being where the cans go off is the biggest concern. At 220plus I have enough time to be somewhere else. As I make my flank run I deploy a decoy go to slow and make another 90 turn. I have survived for as long as 4 hours and remember no escort I face is less than a 3 rated one.

To eliminate the elite rating (it is really simple even for noobs) Open the RND.mis file in the campaign folder.
Click “edit”,
scroll down to “find” click that and a window opens.
In the window copy the line that has the crew rating by finding the first one in RND Group 61 and paste that in the find window.
Change the number to 4 so it says;
CrewRating=4--------------------in that window in your “find” box
Now click “Find next”.
Change each 4 to a 3 which will make all the elite escorts into veteran.
Continue to click “find next” until you have change every 4 to a 3 (but I would leave a one or two 4s as by themselves they are not as bad as two or more.
Click “save” for the RND.mis file
Then open the SCR.mis file and do the dame thing.
This will make 1944 almost possible but in truth the improved weapons in 44 make a 3 as bad or worse than a 1941 elite rated escort.

Before doing this make a back up copy of the RND.mis and SCR.mis file so if you screw up you can always have a known good one to copy and try again or give up and go back to the same ole same ole (NEVER!!!)

Wulfmann