U-292 set sail from Bergen on March 5, 1945, with the boat stuffed to the overheads, and headed south. We re-arranged the milk cows along our route, attacking a convoy in the Pit along the way to make this mission an honorable one.
Met a cow south of the Azores, refueled and took on provisions and then kept shifting them to new locations. By early April we were off the coast of Brazil and kept going south.
Passing Uruguay we ran the radio out of range, so hung about, awaiting a message announcing the end of the war.
On May 2, Donitz instructed all warships to prevent capture. U-292 closed the coast of Argentina in the early dawn hours of May 6. A few years before, Donitz had sent us a bottle of champagne which was put in a locker and forgotten about. But now we pulled it out and drank a toast to our survival (this was dead is dead), to the fallen kameraden and to the good boat U-292 which never failed us. U-292 was then scuttled to prevent capture. Most fun I've had a in a sub sim career.
I had known how much trade ship tonnage we had put under, since Tonnage War tracks it to the end. But I didn't know how many ships that was. So this summary screen was nice to see. Played this career dead is dead at 71% difficulty. I'll bump some stuff for the next career.
I'll start in U-96 in France, January 1941 and take the first mission to transit Gibraltar Strait, redeploy to La Spezia and become a Med boat. I fully credit the VIIC/41 with our survival, the depth capability allowing us to evade the worst of the poundings.
Nice work devs, most fun I've ever had a in a sub sim career.
In order to approximate a semi-realistic operational rate, we took a vacation between every patrol, and then quarreled with the quartermaster for days on end to get our refits out to about 30 days each. Even so we did 29 patrols, and 15 special missions for 44 total over the course of the career.
