I find it interesting how you guys all talk about fuel efficiency and "orders" but anyone ever consider how a U-boat captain would behave if he didn't think the war was worth his crew's lives and so would perhaps behave differently so as to maybe get his men home sooner? For instance recall that scene in Das Boot where the captain fired a torpedo at a stationary tanker that he had already hit to finish it off. If he wanted to milk his patrol for every merchant he could, then he likely would have used the deck gun instead. So then couldn't some Kaleuns have been a little less rigorous in their fuel economy so as to expedite their return to base? I mean if you guys are real hardcore and even try to represent single diesel operation when it isn't modelled shouldn't someone pretend to be looking out for his crew as another layer of the "make-believe"?
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