[Sharkfood]

Try going deeper just bellow 200m, they cant ping you and if your quiet you can get away fairly easily...a lot harder after '43 though!

I will go if i have to.But i was scared that after i wouldn't be able to go up again! So when i managed to level at that depth i wasn't thinking about going deeper.I was just happy i wasn't sinking anymore.

Wow...you must have found the only decent crew in the Royal Navy. I haven't had any DC's fall even remotely near me in my 1941 campaign.

I don't know. It was actually one of the crappiest convoys ever.It was full of small merchants and passenger/cargos.I hit about 5 of them and returned to base with only about 12000 tons sunk.I still had 4-5 torpedoes left ,but both scopes were destroyed and i didn't want to risk anymore by trying surface attacks using UZO.

Yes
This is what would happen to a U-boat when it took on extra weight (water)

Ah,thanks,now i will be more ready the next time.

There is a stock bug which raises it's head now and again. You can take damage while on patrol and the hull integrity will always read 100% BUT when to return to base you will find that your hull integrity has actually dropped, usually quite a lot.

It's not usually permanant and clears after that patrol.

Thanks,i didn't know that and i didn't bother to check the hull integrity after i returned to base.

Sharkfood, did you per chance had any other damage, like to the hydroplanes, batteries or electric engines? Without speed the boat will start start to sink even with relatively moderate flooding.

No,the conning tower had severe damage (at the end scopes and flak were destroyed) and deck gun too.But apart the flooding,the rest was ok.

The speed was minimum because i was trying to avoid detection.So i think in GWX it's 2 knots and 1 knot when turning.Maybe that could have something to do with it...Hmmm.

With any single compartment only partially flooded you will not be able to maintain a steady/constant depth at 2 knots

Now this makes sense...In stock SH3,the "ahead slow" is 3 knots.In GWX it's 2.I didn't think it would make so much difference.Thanks!