[pmcmull]

So I just got started with SH3 like a week ago. I downloaded and installed the GWX3 Onealex version of it. It is working now after the 2nd install went well. It works well and looks very good and I am getting used to the different controls and instruments. After getting thru the training missions, I have been trying some of the single missions. I was trying the "happy time" mission because of knowing something about the historical situation and wanting an easier mission to get some experience.
After starting it several times, I have yet to complete the objectives and survive to get back to base. I have 3 runs where I met the objective to sink 25K tons of shipping and the same thing happened each time. Near the end of getting enough ships hit and sunk, the escort destroyers finally come in. But the ASW effort is not particularly effective. I get the accomplishment of the mission. By this point I have no torpedoes left or maybe 1 or 2. So I go deep and try to move away from the convoy to safety and to surface the boat. Within just a few minutes of getting the win condition a destroyer comes in from somewhere and makes a pass over the top. I have the boat at 80 or 90 meters, and have no damage or only minor damage. He makes a perfect Depth Charge pattern and kills my sub. Either instant or flooding and sinking to depth.
Now this is fall of '39. It is the happy time because sonar and ASW tools are not yet effective. Is this destroyer a ringer? He has come from the future with improved sonar and weapons? I'd like to be able to finish the mission and move on.

Pat