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Originally Posted by Rose
Haha I'm not sure how many times this has been asked -- but its been alot. Let me give it a go. For very long cruises I want to have the opportunity to make my patrol as long as possible to give me time and distance to intercept long range targets, get home if damaged, etc. So I like to go Ahead Slow at PD from sunrise till midnight. At 0000 hours, I surface to charge batts and reload fish, etc. I dive again at dawn, about 0600 hours. This tactic saves me alot of precious fuel. I'm pretty sure its realistic too, though I wouldn't bet my lifes savings on it.
For shorter Type II North Sea cruises, I use Ahead Standard and 1/3.
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Standard practice at least up until later on in the war was for U-boats to travel on the surface as much as possible for a variety of reason. Your speeds are sensible and they are pretty much the ones I use. I sometimes knock the speed down by a couple of knots to simulate running on only one deisel engine which was was fairly common practice in real life but not possible in the game. When I am in my patrol area I tend to travel a 3 or 4 knots. its amazing how much fuel you can save by adjusting the exact speed.