I just ran Scapa, myself. Realism of 94%, GWX.
Second patrol, October of 1939. Type VIIB boat out of Wilhemshaven.
Had a patrol zone right by the area, so I figured I'd at least poke my way in, see what happened, you know?
Came in from the west, submerged and silent. High seas and pouring rain. I kept expecting at any moment to hit a mine, or a net, but I never did. Never even saw one.
Saw a destroyer on patrol; it didn't see me. One torpedo, eight hundred yards. She went up like a box of rockets.
Around dawn, the weather cleared up and I got a good look at the slips. There was a troop transport and a medium merchant; one torpedo each. While I was taking them out, a destroyer decided to sink me; but as he was on the opposite side of a wall, he just kept shelling a building over and over. A little disappointing, actually.
I managed to submerge and pop him with a torpedo as I rounded the corner, but he spotted my scope and smashed my deck gun to flinders in the process.
As there were no ships around, I pulled in the scope and waited an hour for my eels to reload. I poked around in the harbor a bit more, and came upon an armed trawler guarding two tankers. Took down those three ships with my last four forward eels, and got the Hell out of Dodge.
All told, my Scapa Flow adventure netted me 27k tons, 3k of which were warships. It took all night, and I managed to get back to Wilhelmshaven with 7% hull left. (That was a bit of a shocker. Damn good thing I didn't have to crash dive, eh?)
Not worth it. Didn't so much as smell a capital ship, and nearly lost my boat for tonnage I could have racked up more safely and easily in the Irish Channel.
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