[Wulfmann]

I just finished a 1943 start career. This is the second one in over 18 months of constant play and since this one is the super modded with much more difficult sensors and 12-20 veteran escorts per convoy it is more like the first real one. I certainly almost did not survive on many occasion and felt more like a slithering Jackal than a prowling wolf.
When one is silent at one knot and in proper position of a convoy’s path it is very nerve racking to see a line of seven escorts crisscrossing in front of the convoy. If I pick the hole I can slip in and that amounts to a one in three lucky chance. Still with being careful and playing it like the men were real and my actions had consequences I sank almost a half a million tons including an escort carrier and a cruiser. I have added patrols right outside of ports from mid 44 on and it took long periods of no TC just to leave and enter port. I started playing every other day for the first time since May of 2005 because the strain was getting to me and causing me to be careless. When I would attack a convoy I got in to I would turn and run with the merchants as I dove to 200 meters then would turn to a flank all at one knot. Once I heard the “Wasser Bomben” I would crank up the electrics and turn 45% to have them blow up just behind me. This certainly saved me more than any one maneuver.
I use to start in 39 but barely get into 43 and be sunk so started doing these 43 careers to learn the ropes and just found the on the edge difficulty more challenging than running up a high unrealistic score in a cavalier way that always ended in a dumb mistake because I was not careful.
In 1943-45 one is careful virtually every minute.
I did not p[lay brave but ran and hid at the first sign of danger but also took pains to make they English escorts pay a high price for coming after me. I often sank few merchants and many escorts simply because I knew if I blasted a few when they caught me before I could get to the merchants there would be less to hound me as I tried to escape.
Now that I have finally got this extremely hard yet possible I will go back and do a whole war one hopefully not finding the happy days so boring.
Or, GWX will come out and I will get to start over on rebuilding the sensors and campaigns for that to my liking because they would not do it hard enough.
There are just not enough masochists like me to assume they would do so.
Wulfmann