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U-292 and her stout crew have lived to Christmas 1943.


In June the Battle of the Atlantic shifted to the Last Stand phase, at which point it seems the Allies got a big shot in the arm tech-wise. Rocket-firing ASW aircraft (I guess, saw one with stovepipes and didn't hang around to see if they work), modern destroyers like Sims and Tribal class. Probably VLR Liberators out there. Hedgehogs I'd reckon. Fido?


UBOAT features a number of campaigns within the campaign, and rather than spend this first career jumping around to sample it all, I decided that since I love this game so much I will do many careers, so we've ignored some theaters, saving them for subsequent careers so that each one will have its own mojo.


Those are things like Drumbeat, Norway/Arctic and the Mediterranean. Instead, our boats (U-49, U-410 and U-292) have been North Atlantic hunters. Moved to France in June of 1940 and have spent most of the career grinding tonnage in the mid-Atlantic (BE, BD, AL AK grids) for the Black Pit and Last Stand objectives. We have done a few peripheral missions, one to Canada to establish a weather station after getting a milk cow. A couple to west Africa and a couple of agent insertions. But the main business has been anti-shipping patrols on the convoy routes in the North Atlantic.


The VIIC/41 is exceptional. Sailors are famously superstitious, so I don't want to jinx anything, but this boat's diving capabilities have been key to our survival as the war enters 1944. Playing this career on 71% difficulty and I'll bump some stuff for career number two, whenever that arrives.