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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
I pulled out some raw numbers from silent victory:
1942-there were 350 patrols resulting in 180 ships sunk (725,000 tons), including 2 cruisers and 6 submarines. 7 U.S. subs were lost, 1 in port to an air attack, 3 by grounding, 3 sunk. An average of 8 torpedoes were fired for each sinking.
1943-there were 350 patrols resulting in 335 ships sunk (1.5 million tons), including 1 escort carrier and 2 submarines. 15 subs were lost. An average of 11.7 torpedoes were fired for each sinking.
1944-there were 520 patrols resulting in 603 ships sunk (2.7 million tons), including 1 BB, 7 CV, 2 CA, 7 CL, 30 DD and 7 subs. 19 U.S. subs were lost. An average of 10 torpedoes were fired for each sinking.
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Interesting numbers (actually lost 17 subs in 1943, according to the site I noted above, but two of those were accidents not involving combat against Japanese forces, which would get to the 15 number noted above). This sort of backs up someone's (Beery's?) observation about SH3 that it was really a u-boat
ace simulation rather than just a sub sim - I don't think most folks would really play the game for long if it accurately simulated an average of 1 sinking every 2 patrols or even 1 per patrol, as the numbers above would suggest. However, I don't think most folks would play it for long if you always get record-breaking totals every time out either, so I hope the modders can reach some happy medium that will give you a reasonable chance to replicate the results achieved by the ace skippers or maybe even surpass them a bit, but make it a real challenge to do so.